European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. April. 1987 the stars and stripes sea swell delays righting Page 9 Zeebrugge Belgium api offi Cial said sunday a nigh swell has delayed by u much As 24 noun the righting of he British Terry that capsized March 6 outside this North sea port with 543 people on Board. The lifting of the Herald of free Enterprise is now expected to Lake place tuesday morning unless the weather forecasts indicate it would be preferable to Start at High tide monday night Ca Brielle Nossell. A spokeswoman for Townsend Thorien the ferry s owner said. Obviously the salvages prefer to do the Job in Daylight she added. She said 61 people Are confirmed to have died in the disaster. Townsend Thoreson he Long held that. 73 bodies Are still inside the 7,951 ton ship that lies half submerged about 1,000 Yards out tide this Harbor. But last week it agreed with belgian officials that As Many As 134 bodies May be inside. Officials have said Many of the 409 originally reported survivors May have registered twice in the hours that Fol Lowed the capsizing. They have said that the removal of the bodies will be the first priority and that the Job May Lake two weeks. On saturday stint Tak a dutch salvaging firm moored two giant pulling barges and three floating cranes off either Side of the ferry and began connect ing them to the ship with hundreds of Yards of steel cables to right the vessel. But on saturday evening a High Sweet halted All work. They restarted at on sunday moment said. She said that before the actual lifting operation salvages will first test the ten Sion of All the cables. The Complex salvaging operation she said will be executed in several Steps. The ferry will be righted by the two Hans Walen Kain Heads the Salvage operation or the Herald of free Enterprise. App Tau barges that will pull themselves toward 16 steel pilings that have been driven deep into the seabed about 140 Yards away. At the same time three floating cranes on the other Side of the ferry win help ship can be righted in about six to eight hours. Once righted Nossell said the pull ing pontoons will stabilize and secure the ship by moving. Snug up to either Side of the Hull. Then there will be an initial inspection of the ship by Bel Gian authorities followed by systematic searching inside the ship to locate and bring out she added that the bodies will be re moved by belgian and British Navy div ers and will be taken to the Zeebrugge naval base for scientific identification she said relatives have been asked to stay away from Zeebrugge to spare them the agony of seeing badly decomposed bodies of members of their family. She added that three teams of divers will first remove bodies located in the above water passenger accommodation areas during the first two or three Days while Here is still water in the after the ship has been righted Sal pagers will pump out 15,000 tons of water a proms which Nossell said May Lake two week after the water has been removed. Bodies will be re moved from lower deck accommodations and work areas once the ship has been re floated it will be Lowed into Zeebrugge Harbor from where it left March 6 Lor Dover 85 Miles away. It capsized in the space of a minute Early in the evening. The cause of the disaster is still under investigation but it is widely believed the ferry look in water through the Bow loading doors thai were found open after the ship Sank. Last week sir Barry Sheen who Heads a British inquiry into the disaster said in London what struck me. Was the Speed with which the ship Sheen who is a British admiralty High court judge has begun a preliminary investigation and recently circled the Cap size Terry. The ship lies in about 10 Yards of water on a Sand bar outside Zeebrugge Harbor. On sunday in sunny and Clear weather hundreds of people on Shore Many armed with binoculars peered at the ship s Reddish Brown Hull and the salvaging Craft around it. Salvages had first picked March 31 As a Dale Lor lining the ferry but a fierce storm the previous weekend kept Crews Shore bound for several Days and drove the ship two Yards deeper into the Sandy sea Bottom. Since the ship capsized salvages Nave Laid 10 anchors to keep the ship still Dur ing righting have driven the pilings into the sea bed and have welded a Carlile Vered Brace to the Side of the exposed starboard Side of the ship to prevent the heavy pulling cables from damaging the Hull when in is towed onto its keel does Nessie s relative live in swedish Lake Stockholm. Sweden a does Nessie the monster of Scotland s Loch Ness have a great aunt Greta who lives in a huge Mountain Lake in Northern Sweden scientists say they will make a search to find out. Reports of a monster in Ston Joen great Lake go 350 years three centuries before someone first claimed to see Nessie in december 1933. Sten real hog said the Large number of sightings Means there must be something in the Lake 300 Miles North of Stockholm where Spring comes so ate that cars Are still driving the is mites across its ice covered surface. Rent hog runs the county museum in nearby Osler Sund and is director of the newly formed society for investigating the great Lake. He said in a Telephone interview that his museum Staft had collected the reports of 400 people who claim to have seen the monster Between 1635 and last week. Lara Tofeldt a member of the 12-Man scientific team said no Clear picture of the monster emerges from the accounts. He is a botanist and teaches at the College in Osler Sund. Some people said they saw a Large neck undulating and Forth that looked like a horse s mane Tho Feldt told the associated press by Telephone. Others observed a Large worm like rent hog said scientifically you can t say it exists until it is proved but there is at Bast As much evidence As there is about the Loch Ness reports of the creature s size also differ. One of the earliest reports described it As Large enough to wrap its body around one Fostor Sjon s Many islands but later ones give a variety of lengths ranging from 10 feet to 42feel _ the Loch Ness monster is described As 40 to 50 feel Long. One of Many theories is that the reported monster was trapped in the swedish Lake 15,000 Yean ago during the ice age. Hofeldt said it could be a water reptile or Akin to a Large Snail. Human settlement in Sto Sjoen Basin has been tra Cedlo the Iron age around 400 b.c., making it the oldest inhabited area in Scandinavia rent hog said. Although the great Lake society Wilt search for Evi Dence of the monster to Feldl said its real aim is to investigate the area and to create an interest for bring ing qualified enterprises Here swedish news reports said submarines would probe the Lake which is 243 feet deep and covers an area of 164 Square Miles. It would be a splendid idea logo Down with head lights and cameras Tho Feldl said but in was doubtful that the society could raise enough Money. Among the first tasks he listed Are collate information from the sighting reports try to identify any Pat Tern in timing or location and compare notes with other organizations such As the Loch Ness society. Convicted in 60s moors murders woman confesses role in 2 other slayings London a More than 20 years after three children were slain in the moors murders convicted killer Myra Hindley has confessed to taking part in killing two other children her lawyer said. She wanted the missing bodies to be found so they could be Given a Chris Tian burial and end two decades of Tor ment for the families said lawyer Michael Fisher. Hindley 43, is serving a life sentence for helping her Boyfriend Ian Brady kill two children in i he Early 1960s, Brady also serving a life sentence was convicted of killing a third child. Fisher provided a statement he said was from Hindley in which she con fessed to helping Brady kill Keith Ben Nett 12, and Pauline Reade 16, whose bodies have never been found. I know that the parents of the miss ing children May never be Able to forgive me and that words of mine can never express the remorse i now feel for what 1 did and my refusal for so Long to admit to the crimes the statement said. The statement said she first confessed to a methodist minister and former Pris on governor then confessed to police in late february. "1 admitted my role in these awful events and said that i considered myself to be As guilty As my former Lover Ian Brady although our roles were differ ent statement said. Benedict Bornberg lawyer for the 48 year old Brady said his client had re fused to cooperate with a new inquiry. Police officers continued to search the Yorkshire moors in Northern England where Kindsey and Brady buried their victims in Shadow Graves. Police took Hindley to Saddleworth Moor twice in the past few months and she identified places where she believed the two missing children were buried. Hindley s statement said she derided to help police after receiving a letter in october from Winifred Johnson Mother of Keith Bennett asking for help in find ing out what happened to her son. Hindley and Brady were sentenced in 1966 for murdering Lesley Ann Downey id and Edward Evans 17. Brady also was sentenced for murdering John Kil Bride 12, at their trial the jury heard a l uie tape recording of the Girt pleading for mercy As she was being tortured and sexually assaulted. Sex broadcaster Dies Washington a Al Ross a former broadcaster for voice of America and Host of radio and television pro Grams in the nation s capital died sat urday of congestive heart failure. He was 71. Ross joined via in 1971 and worked Al the station until december when he retired for health reasons
