MV Le Joola

MV Le Joola

MV Le Joola was a Senegalese government-owned ferry that capsized off the coast of the Gambia on September 26, 2002. The disaster sent 1,863 people to their deaths. The sinking of Le Joola is thought to be the second-worst non-military maritime disaster in number of lives lost. The first is considered to be the MV Doña Paz in 1987 with an estimated number of over 4,000 dead. The RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912 with 1,517 lives lost, would be third according to the World Almanac and the New York Times.

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