MV Teratai Prima 2009
Marker: recorded wreck position (Modern).
Key facts
| Name | MV Teratai Prima | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Year lost | 2009 | Wikidata P793 significant event, point-in-time qualifier |
| Era | Modern | derived from year |
| Ship type | ship | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Foundered | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | Indonesia | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Sea / ocean | Makassar Strait | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Indonesia | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 11 km from land |
| Position | -3.4500, 118.7833 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
The sinking of MV Teratai Prima occurred on 11 January 2009, around 04:00 local time (January 10, 21:00 UTC) when a ferry carrying more than 300 people capsized in the Makassar Strait off West Sulawesi, Survivors stated that the ferry had been slammed by 4-metre (13 ft) waves twice. The first one hit so hard that the ship became unbalanced (witnesses said the angle approached 30 degrees), before another wave hit from a different direction and sank the vessel.
Indonesian officials stated that more than 300 people were aboard the sunken ferry. In the following days, 35 survivors were evacuated from the site of the sinking. More than 300 people were listed as missing, all of them were presumed dead. With the deaths of more than 300 people, the sinking is regarded as the deadliest maritime disaster in Indonesia since the sinking of MV Senopati Nusantara in 2006.
The National Transportation Safety Committee published the final report. The investigation found that the ferry was overloaded during the sinking. The Captain had also ignored warnings of bad weather from officials of the local meteorological agency.
Location
- Recorded position: -3.4500, 118.7833 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Makassar Strait
- Nearest coast: Indonesia
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Sinking of MV Teratai Prima (revision 1378664208), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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