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Greek Ferry Captain, First Officer Arrested After Two Passengers Injured

ATHENS – In yet another ferry boat incident in Greece during the height of the summer tourism season, the Captain and First Officer of a high-speed ferry boat were arrested after two passengers were hurt getting off at the island of Santorini.

The Coast Guard said that a 35-year-old woman hurt her back, neck and left arm when she fell on the ramp and that a 53-year-old man hurt his leg trying to help her as they were disembarking the Cyprus-flagged Champion Jet 1.

Reports said that the two had to go to the island’s hospital on their own to seek treatment, with no indication whether the crew had tried to aid them or any details about how the accident happened.

The two officers detained are facing charges of breaching safety protocols, involuntarily causing the passengers’ injury and failing to provide medical assistance, as well as exposing the ferry’s passengers to danger.

That came a few days after the Captain of a vessel was arrested and then fired after a video showed it was departing from the port on the island of Andros during gale-force winds as a car was trying to get on board.

He wasn’t named by SAOS Ferries suspended service and fired him when the video went viral on the Internet and showed the entrance ramp bucking up and down in the wind and the car almost going off the edge into the water.

Reports said the driver insisted on getting his vehicle on board as the crew was trying to prevent it because conditions were too dangerous but it wasn’t said if any action was being taken over that.

And a passenger upset about the toilets in a ferry from Crete to Athens – an 8-hour ride – accosted and assaulted a crew member as another rider jumped in to help the seaman, state broadcaster ERT said.

Details weren’t given what was wrong – whether the toilet wasn’t working or had some other problem – but the man was upset enough to confront the crew member and complain about it as the tension grew.

The crew member tried to calm the passenger but the confrontation escalated and the two began battling, the report said, as a second rider jumped it to try to quell the disturbance and a video on TV showed men arguing, one with his shirt torn off.

The ship continued its route to Athens and the police weren’t called, the report added. Greece’s ferries are packed during tourist season and the height of summer despite soaring prices making them unaffordable to many families.

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