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Serangan-Gili shipwreck cuts Trawangan transport route
Tourists wishing to travel by boat from Serangan Island, Bali, to Gili Trawangan, West Nusa Tenggara, will have to wait for a replacement vessel because Lian Sengigi, the only boat plying the route, sank Friday with 40 tourists onboard
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ourists wishing to travel by boat from Serangan Island, Bali, to Gili Trawangan, West Nusa Tenggara, will have to wait for a replacement vessel because Lian Sengigi, the only boat plying the route, sank Friday with 40 tourists onboard.
No one died in the accident.
Aria, an administration officer at PT Tajri Samudra, the owner of the sunken vessel, said the management was preparing another boat to serve the route, but refused to give a time for when the route would be reopened.
"We have the replacement boat here in Bali but we are still waiting for the engines. The boat will use three engines," she said Tuesday.
"We are very sorry we can not serve the route for the time being."
The boat sank with 40 tourists onboard, most of them foreign nationals, and four crew members, on a return trip to Serangan Island after being battered by large waves.
There were no casualties in the incident because the crew were quick to deploy two life rafts, a maritime police officer said.
With the help of the rafts, the tourists swam to Jumpai Beach in Klungkung, some 500 meters away from where the boat sunk, where they were picked up by local fishermen.
Police declared the incident an accident.
People seeking passage from Bali to Lombok can take the Blue Water Express boats, which departs from Bali International Marina in Benoa Harbor, Denpasar, and stops off at all three Gili islands.
They can also take the Gili Cat or the Eka Jaya boats, which serve the Bali-Gili Trawangan route from Padang Bai Harbor in Karangasem regency, some 70 kilometers east of Denpasar.
