It is an all too familiar story --- boatfuls of hopeful immigrants perishing in the deadly waters off the Italian coast.<br/> <br />Italian Fisherman Raimondo Vetti:<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) (AUDIO AS INCOMING) FISHERMEN, RAIMONDO VETTI, SAYING:<br/> <br />"It's time to stop this situation, it's twenty-five years we have put up with this, it is time to stop it, we are tired."<br/> <br />But this time, the numbers are staggering.<br/> <br />An estimated 300 Eritrean and Somali men, women and children, -- seeking to start anew in Europe -- drown when their boat carrying around 500 sank.<br/> <br />155 were pulled from the sea alive Thursday by the Italian Coast Guard, but little hope remains in finding more survivors.<br/> <br />Sofia Mohammed of the Embassy of Somalia in Rome says it shocked the Somali community.<br/> <br />"For goodness' sake, you can't even imagine. There is no need to even ask me."<br/> <br />The tragedy off the island of Lampedusa posed a predicament -- where to put the bodies recovered.<br/> <br />More tha
