Tamara Carrasco, a retired elementary school teacher from Atlanta, was on the ship when it was struck. Blake Paterson
A riverboat was struck by a tanker in New Orleans on Friday, causing the ship to tip over and sink.
Tamara Carrasco said the collision knocked her to the floor and water gushed into the ship.
"What was going through my mind was: we're going to die," she said.
Tamara Carrasco was in the dining room of the American Heritage cruise ship , docked in the Port of New Orleans, when she spotted a tanker heading straight toward them.
Carrasco, a retired elementary school teacher from Atlanta, was seated at a table by the windows so she…
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