Blue Star Surf Charter Boat Sinks In The Maldives
“The only thing I heard after the impact was ‘get the fuck out of your room quick!’”
The Blue Star was a surfer charter boat operating in the Maldives. On Monday morning at 6:45am, with a full crew onboard, the boat hit the reef and began taking on water.
Boris Romann, a French surfer onboard writes, “It was pretty stressful to pack all our stuff while seeing all the water filling our rooms, so we’ve all lost some stuff in the rush but the most important thing is that everybody is now safe and we will all come back home with an unlikely story to tell.”
“Personally I think it was the most stressful experience I’ve ever had to deal with because most of us had our rooms under the ocean surface level so the water was coming in really fast and I had all my photography materials, my computer, gopro, disk drives, SD cards, phone, passport, clothes, bags etc. I didn’t know how long the boat would stay at the surface.”
“The only thing I heard after the impact was my mate @florentneyens screaming “Boris hurry up! Get the fuck out from your room quick!” But I had to pack my materials and with the stress, I wasn’t organized at all! I was shaking so much and all my moves made absolutely no sense. I can’t even imagine how it would go by night in a stormy ocean…”
All the crew are reported to be safe. The boat is a write off.
More details to come.
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