World : Stricken Soviet Ship’s Speed Cited
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ABOARD THE SENJA, Arctic Ocean — The Norwegian coast guard skipper who rescued hundreds of passengers from a stricken Soviet cruise liner said today that the ship was traveling much too fast when it smashed into a belt of Arctic ice.
“I don’t know the exact speed but I was told by crew on board that it had a speed of between 14 and 17 knots at the time of the accident,” Sigurd Kleiven, commander of the coast guard vessel Senja, told a shipboard news conference.
Asked how fast he would have been going in such foggy conditions with drifting ice around, he replied: “Between two and three knots.”
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