For teenagers, that can mean more time in the chair; for parents, more half-days lost ferrying children to appointments.
However, in southern Bømlo there were concerns that they would lose their ferry, as they would have a much longer rout to Haugesund via the Triangle Link.
The issue became the subject of major local debate and was supplemented by a demand from residents in southern Bømlo that they did not want to lose their ferry service, which would be faster than driving via the fixed link.
The ferry lost power after the collision, but it was not in any danger of sinking, rescuers said.
The New Yorker, February 3 , 1934P. 14 A financial man, going to Hoboken to attend the annual stockholders meeting, standing on the deck of the ferry, lost his hat.
By E. E. Robinson, St. Clair McKelway, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, February 3 , 1934P. 14 A financial man, going to Hoboken to attend the annual stockholders meeting, standing on the deck of the ferry, lost his hat.
The wreck was recent enough -- the ship went down in 1991 -- that no one struggles to remember the lives that were lost as the ferry sank into the sea after striking a reef, but the wreck is already a huge attraction for divers, who can still see the luggage that still sits in the hull.
Coastguards lost contact with the ferry late on Saturday afternoon and it failed to arrive at its destination in Siwa across the Bay of Bone as scheduled.
The ferry was lost about 40 miles from land on its route from Halmahera Island, where as many as 200 Christian villagers were killed a week earlier in continuing fighting between Christians and Muslims.
There is a suspenseful sequence in which the horse-drawn carriage delivering Jack to the ferry loses a wheel, and German soldiers help reattach it without realizing the passenger's identity.
"It's all fake", says Kim Byong-kwon, who lost a daughter in the ferry accident and who represents the victims' families.
