Senegalese Mark 10 Years Since Their "Titanic" Ten years after one of the worst maritime disasters in history, the few survivors and dozens of families of the dead gathered in Senegal to pay homage to victims of the Joola, a Senegalese ferry that sank off the coast of Gambia, killing 1,863 people. Young relatives of people killed in the 2002 Joola ferry disaster pray as they visit a cemetery containing 140 unmarked graves of victims, in Mbao, outside Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, the tenth anniversary of the ferry's sinking. With an official death toll of 1,863 and only 64 survivors, the Joola disaster remains one of the deadliest in maritime history, surpassing by a large margin the death toll of roughly 1500 in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Close That's 361 more than died when the Titanic went down, taking with it 1,502 people. The Joola was overloaded with passengers and survivors say it was already listing from the excess weight on the night of Sept. 26, 2002, when it ran into a storm. Survivors wept at the graves Wednesday. Among the 64 who made it out alive was Victor Djiba. He says he has been taking sleeping pills since 2002, because although he managed to get out, his friend traveling with him perished.