In Reply to: eka jaya fastboat posted by cross_x on Wednesday, 25. August 2010 at 12:56 Bali Time:
... read my post here http://www.btf-archives.com/archive201008/82173.html
dated 8th August in which Phil Smith, Marketing Manager of Island Promotions warned of this and said
"The Lombok straight is notoriously dangerous and a while ago one of these boats sank which was kept out of the news, very very luckily nobody was seriously injured and everybody survived."
Guess this time it made the news!
That said when tossing up whether to go via fast boat or to fly I decided I can swim better than I can fly so will stick to the boats!
Sheryl