In 2012, on Lamma Island’s shores, 39 passengers lost their lives in a horrific collision between two passenger ferries. Family members of the deceased obtained over 2,200 pages of reports concerning the incident. Based on these reports and 90 witness accounts, Stand News uncovered the Marine Department’s inept training and other problems that led to the collision. Despite a police recommendation that a coroner’s court be convened so that the Marine Department could be heard in public, the coroner’s inquest was never convened. As a result, family members of the dead could only use the 2,200 pages of reports to find the truth behind the fatal collision. However, Stand News’s investigations found contradictions between these reports and testimonies from the ferry factory and other witnesses. Higher-ups of the ferry companies refused to comment on the incident. 

Would this be the end of the search for the true reason why 39 passengers had their lives cut short in 2012? Was someone trying to hide the truth? Stand News’s investigative reporting on the 2012 Lamma Island ferry collision attempted to retrace the event from start to finish, in order to decipher the truth.