The captains of a ferry and a pleasure boat that collided in Hong Kong, killing 38 people in the city's worst maritime disaster in decades, were arrested Tuesday with five other crew, officials said. More than 120 passengers and crew were on a Hong Kong Electric company vessel to watch a huge National Day fireworks display in Victoria Harbour Monday evening when the collision occurred near Lamma island. Scores of people were thrown into the choppy water from the company boat, which sank within minutes, leaving only its bow protruding from the waves. The stricken ferry Sea Smooth limped to Lamma where its shaken but relatively unharmed passengers disembarked. "There was not enough time to put on a lifejacket, no time to fasten it. We tried to hold onto something above but we had no luck and we slipped," one emotional woman from the Hong Kong Electric vessel told reporters.
