Tourist boats in Vietnam are often made of weak wood that cracks easily, resulting in sinkings that drown passengers. A recent incident in Halong Bay killed 12 people, including 11 foreign tourists and their Vietnamese guide, when their wooden boat sank quickly within a minute. Survivors reported hearing the crack of wood before it went under. To prevent future deaths, officials should require boats to be constructed of stronger, higher quality materials that can withstand cracks or damage.

1. Mohammed Al-Kuwari

2. The problem is that boats in Vietnam are easily
sunk, so my suggestion is that them make their
ships from better materials. There has been a
few cases when boats got sunk because there
was a crack in the wood, and people drowned.
The problem is that a lot of people go to
Vietnam as tourists, for sightseeing, but a lot of
those people die because, their ships are very
week and get destroyed easily.

3.  Vietnam tourist boat sinking kills 12 in Halong
Bay
 Eleven foreign tourists and their Vietnamese
guide have drowned after their tour boat sank
in Halong Bay in north-east Vietnam.
 The wooden boat was touring in the Unesco
World Heritage Site, in Quang Ninh province,
when it went down.
 Survivor Stefano Corda from Italy said the boat
took only one minute to sink

4.  Fifteen people, including nine foreigners, have
been rescued.
 Crew members tried to stop the water from
coming in and alerted the tourists who were
sleeping, but the water came in and the boat
sank quickly. All of the 12 people who died
were in the cabins
 The people were holiday makers from:
Australia, Japan, Russia, France, Sweden and
Switzerland, along with a Vietnamese tour
guide.

5.  It wastes trees
 It kills people
 Loss of wood
 Pollutes the ocean
 Loses tourists
 Loses way of money

6.  BBC hid some of the news.
 They didn’t talk about the people who died
 They were just talking about the issue in
general, they didn’t say what time, they said
they weren't sure about some of the details but
when I compare it to different websites some of
them have more details

7.  This website talks about this issue in details, it
tells us about the survivors it shows us their
pictures, it also tells us what the people were
doing before the boat got sunk, and after the
boat got sunk, what happened to them.
 This website also told us why the boat got
sunk, what they are planning to do. What the
survivors did to stay alive, and where they
were before the boat sunk. One suvivor said he
heard the crack of wood and jumped of the
boat.

8.  This website just had the point of view of
Australians, how they fear it, and how.
 This website is biased, it only talks about
australians, and it doesn’t talk about the other
people, it just tells us about the australians
point of view.
 But this website did talk a bit about the
vietnam boat sink and what happened and
what they will try to do to prevent it

9.  The best website was daily mail. I was the best
website because it talked about the issue and
what happened it talked about the amount of
casualties, this website showed us the people
who died, what they were doing, so this
website was the best because it had more
pictures and more details.

10.  I would recommend that they build stronger
ships, use better materials for ships
 Listen to weather warnings