On February 3, 2006, a passenger ferry with more than 1,400 passengers sank in the Red Sea, the Egyptian ferry "Al-Salam Boccaccio 98" was sunk in the Red Sea on February 3, 2006, the German Mirror Week that maritime officials said that the Egyptian passenger ship "Al-Salam Boccaccio 98" was sunk in the Red Sea on January 6, 2006 and that it was 130 meters long and 24 meters wide and owned by the Egyptian El-Salam Maritime Company, the company's website said the ferry was approved to carry 1,400 passengers. "Al-Salam Boccaccio 98" was built in Italy in 1970 and was undergoing heavy repairs at the Egyptian shipyard in 1990. The issue of the ship's 35-year-old, registered in Panama, was that the