Bulgaria boat delivered to shallow waters

MOSCOW, July 24 (Itar-Tass) -- The Bulgaria boat is delivered to
shallow waters of the Kirelskoye Zaton, experts are preparing for sealing
the vessel and for pumping out water.
"The vessel is in the shallow waters, thus the work of the Ministry of
Transport is over. Now staff of the Emergencies Ministry will seal it and
will pump out water," spokesman for the response centre Timur Khikmatov
told Itar-Tass on the telephone.
After water is pumped from the ship, it will be taken to a dock, where
investigators will examine it in order to establish the shipwreck causes.
Only 79 people survived the sinking of the Bulgaria, which was
carrying 201 people on the day of the catastrophe. Eight bodies are still
missing. On Saturday, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said the bodies of six
women and two men are being sought and confirmed that no children are
among the missing.
The ship had 208 people aboard, but only 79 of them - 29 women, ten
children and 40 men were rescued. Fifteen are missing.
The MS Bulgaria sank in a storm in the Kuibyshevskoye dam lake, three
kilometres away from the shore, on July 10. The ship built in