Originally Posted by johny (Post 6572448)

from what I heard. they were sleeping in their car / camper on the car deck. on the northern ferrys you aren't allowed on the car deck durring sailing. only the upper decks. the crew helped everyone off the main decks. and probably neven even went down to the car deck. the car deck is locked the whole time so people can't go down.

so it was their breaking the ferry rules that got them killed.