Survivors of the Indonesian ferry disaster in which 245 people are still missing told today of their terror as the ship suddenly rolled over, throwing them into the sea in pitch darkness.
This called into question Mr Brown's oft-repeated claim that economic woes are global, and well-managed Britain is better placed than most to deal with them.
Now we don't know whether Turner actually was referring into a real shipwreck or into a poem that had been published a year before by William falconer.
A sinister thing, the simple virus is fraught with doom, not quite dead yet not fully alive, it exists in that nether genre somewhere between disaster movies and horror flicks.
Meanwhile, prices of many Japanese imports - from baby formula to lotions to fish - have surged due to a supply crunch following the disaster, state media reports said.
This divergence on such an important question is not a calamity, and so far as it causes us to be occupied with the problem at the present time is a matter for rejoicing.
The problem, as we now know, is that there is a significant chance of them falling victim to events more extreme than those they were designed to withstand.
Instead of technical wizardry and precision passing, there was tightness as Brazil kept falling victim to Croatia's attacks down the sidelines. Then, in the 11th minute, disaster struck.