"Remembering Son Chapman four decades later", Kaieteur News, Georgetown, 5 July 2009. Most of the thirty-three survivors, including the entire crew, were those fortunate to be on the deck or bow "Son Chapman’ victims remembered at touching ceremony", Kaieteur News, Georgetown, 7 July 2010. when the boat exploded. The Sun Chapman exploded shortly after leaving Horadia about sixteen miles from Mackenzie. By 8 July, thirty-two bodies were recovered from the river and taken to the Mackenzie Hospital morgue to be buried."MEDICAL JOURNAL OF DR. DAVIES-WEBB WITH REFERENCE TO THE SINKING OF THE SUN CHAPMAN" The Wismar Commission Report, Georgetown, 22 July 1964. Some badly decomposed bodies were also buried at Horadia.
