Nova
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No kidding. I cannot imagine how many lives would have been lost if they hadn't been so close to land. (Of course, the accident wouldn't have happened in open seas, but still.)
Praying for the missing and the grieving families. I hope that the passenger list error means that no other people are really missing or dead.
I think there are some places where sand bars lie just beneath the surface, but dry land is a mile or more away. How many passengers could swim a mile in the dark? Not many, I imagine.
(ETA I'm not contradicting you. A sand bar a mile from shore isn't really the "open seas." But it might as well be in practical terms for people who are shipwrecked in the dark.)