The pleasure boat Lamma IV, and a high-speed ferry, the Sea Smooth, collided on 1 October last year.

BBC: Hong Kong Lamma Island boat crash captains charged

The collision on Monday night involved a pleasure boat, the Lamma IV, and a ferry operated by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry (HKKF) company.

BBC: Hong Kong mourns victims of Lamma Island boat collision

This week his government backed a plan by Hyundai, the South's biggest company, to take more than 2, 000 tourists a week in a pleasure boat to Mount Kumkang in the North.

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As rescuers continue to search the waters off Hong Kong following a fatal boat collision, survivors describe the moment of impact and the chaos that followed as the Lamma IV pleasure boat sank.

BBC: Hong Kong collision: Survivors' stories

"I loved sailing, I had my own boat, and I wanted to do it with someone who got the same excitement and pleasure out of it, " McLaren-Morris, a former sales and marketing director at National Geographic, said.

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So for the moment, Thames Clippers' civilised catamarans to and from Waterloo, like Thames Executive Charters' daily commuter boat from Putney, with coffee and newspapers and a sundeck for the summer, remain a secret pleasure for the cognoscenti.

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