It was a very ordinary flight. These are often called low weekend. On Saturday evening the ship, "Bulgaria" came out of the Kazan and at seven o'clock Sunday morning moored in the town of Bolgar. Tour lasted about three hours, and at 11 am the passengers were on board. Steam-ship lay on the way back. Before the crash was about two hours. It all happened in minutes. About three kilometers from the coast, opposite the village Syukeevo ship heeled over sharply and began to sink. The tragedy has evolved so rapidly that the passengers did not even understand what happened. "He just keeled over to starboard. That's all there kuvyrknulsya and left ", – says Nikolay Chernov witness. Natalia Makarova and her husband were at this point in his cabin. Their salvation they must own daughter. That's just the life they save could not. "The child my husband has saved lives. She ran for two minutes before the crash and said: Dad, Mom, now ship will sink wear vests. I have a stupor – like drowning? ", – Says Natalya. Natalia until recently tried to keep her daughter. But when the ship was already under water, air lock knocked it from his mother. Children generally were on the boat too much. Some of the children before the disaster gathered in a separate room, out of which they have failed. Jump overboard was mostly adults. They had spent in the water for about two hours. "Two ships have been – do not stop. We waved to them, waving. Held "Volganeft" blue-blue with large boards, passed, did not stop there. Then the barge – do not stop. And this just stopped "- continuing Nikolai Chernov. Those who survived, picked up the cruise ship "Arabella." In Rinat Rakhimov to Bulgaria was the daughter of her husband. It was a little honeymoon. On board the "Arabella" in-law phoned one already. What happened, Rinat knows only from his words. "We said, sunk, I said, my wife gave her hand, did not manage to pull it out. He says he has come up, and that there was, I do not know. Here, waiting for him "- says Rinat. The very ship "Bulgaria" was built in Czechoslovakia in 1955 and, according to some sources, he has never held major repairs. Yes, and design features have been deprecated. Ship "Bulgaria", sank to a 20-meter depth. In the MOE said that the hope of finding alive among those who are considered missing, shrinking with each passing hour the search. All Regional News
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