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The Salem Express was a passenger ferry, launched in France in 1964 as the Fred Scamaroni and renamed after the Samatour line bought her. On December 15, 1991 she struck Hyndeman reef, which opened her hull, and she went down fast. The official count was 960 pilgrims returning from Mecca; other accounts put the number aboard closer to 1,600. About 180 people survived. The wreck holds the remains of those who did not, and most operators dive it from the outside only.
