Bahrain ? Some crowded the dance floor on the upper deck while others dined on the deck below when the cruise boat, the Al-Dana, began a sharp turn and suddenly swayed.

Passengers – senior employees of an array of companies charged with building the 50-story twin spires of Bahrain’s World Trade Center – lost their balance and fell overboard as the craft turned over in the inky waters of the Persian Gulf.

Of the 126 people aboard, 57 drowned, 67 were rescued and two remained missing after the boat capsized Thursday night in fair weather less than half a mile off the coast of this island nation on the western shore of the Gulf.