Indonesian passenger ship with 240 aboard vanishes in Java Sea

Somewhere in the Java Sea, a passenger ferry carrying 240 souls fell silent mid-crossing, disappearing from the web of signals that modern maritime travel depends upon. The Virgo Transport 8 had set out from Surabaya toward Borneo's Banjarmasin on a Sunday — an ordinary journey across one of Indonesia's most traveled sea corridors — before vanishing from contact roughly 92 miles from port. In the hours that followed, Indonesian search-and-rescue teams moved into the uncertainty that defines every maritime emergency: the fragile interval between absence and answer, when what is unknown weighs h