One person died and more than 30 remained missing after the ferry Matui sank off Espiritu Santo. [1] Reuters filed the prime minister's office. [1] The Guardian filed the same Sunday search. [2] Print one and more than 30. Do not invent a closed passenger list. Do not invent a cause.

A Santo-to-Ambae run is not Virgo and not June Aster. Leave a named later UNGA cancel to the edition that owns a named later cancel. Print the missing. Print not a closed disaster.

Print more than 30. Sunday is not a closed Vanuatu list. One dead is still one. Print more than 30 as Sunday's named Matui hold. Rough seas are still not a certified overload finding. Print one as still the named dead. Print missing as still missing. Officially missing stays missing; Sunday's stays.

Island ferry disasters follow a cruel arithmetic: small vessels, big seas, slow rescue. The search window narrows with every tide. Sunday's missing are still, officially, missing.

Narrowing windows still leave names unlisted; Sunday lists none. One dead is certified. The rest stay missing.

Small vessels, big seas, slow rescue. One dead is certified. The rest stay officially missing.

Search boats still work the water off Espiritu Santo. The Matui file stays at one dead and more than thirty missing. A Santo-to-Ambae crossing is not a finished passenger list. Rough water is weather, not a certified overload.
Search boats still work the water. The rest stay officially missing. One dead, more than thirty unaccounted.

Search boats still work the water. The rest stay officially missing. One dead, more than thirty unaccounted.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo