2009 Kiribati ferry accident

Maritime incident in Kiribati August 2025 The 2009 Kiribati ferry accident was the sinking, on 13 July 2009, of an inter-island ferry in the south Pacific nation of Kiribati.Sam Seke Mourning for Kiribati ferry tragedy missing presumed dead http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200907/s2637865.htm Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2009-07-30 2009-08-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20090811051113/http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200907/s2637865.htm 2009-08-11 live The accident is believed to have killed 33 of the ship's 55 passengers and crew. The ferry was a 56 ft m mid -long double-hulled wood catamaran en route between Tarawa and the outlying island of Maiana. It capsized when the captain attempted to turn around to rescue a crew member who had been swept overboard in high seas. The Royal New Zealand Air Force sent a C130 aircraft to aid in air-sea rescue and recovery operations; it aided in recovering twenty survivors, and seven bodies, before calling off the search. A further eighteen bodies were not recovered. See also MV Princess Ashika, a ferry which capsized in Tonga a month later List of maritime disasters Butiraoi, an I-Kiribati ferry travelling between Nonouti and Betio which sank in January 2018. References NZ quits search for 18 missing from Kiribati ferry (Archived 2009-08-11) Category:2009 in Kiribati Category:Maritime incidents in 2009 Category:Maritime incidents in Kiribati Category:July 2009 in Oceania Category:Ferry boat disasters