Cruise Ship Sinking South Africa

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Cruise ship sinking south africa. Cruise Ship Sinks Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa. The sinking of Oceanos. The ship however never arrived in Durban.

Photographs some taken by survivors document the cruise ship sinking off Southern Africas eastern coast in August 1991. Her captain and some of the crew were convicted of negligence for fleeing the ship without helping the passengers who were subsequently rescued thanks to the efforts of the ships entertainers. The passenger cruise ship Oceanos sank 4th August 1991.

Captain of Oceanos abandons ship and leaves crew and. The Oceanos cruise liner begins sinking off the Wild Coast. When it sank in 1991 the skipper and some of the crew members were convicted of negligence after abandoning the vessel without helping the passengers who were rescued thanks to the efforts of the ships entertainers.

18 February 1982 A South African frigate that sank in deep water after a collision with its refueling ship SAS Tafelberg. The MV Oceanos was a 153m passenger ship built in 1952 and designed to carry 550 passengers and 250 crew. The cruise ship oceanos sank in 1991 off the south african coast.

While all 571 passengers and crew were safely rescued from the sinking Oceanos off the coast of South Africa the cause of the ships flooding and subsequent sinking has still not been determined according to Art Lubin President of Epirotiki Lines. The tradition is very strongly felt among mariners. The Oceanos was a Greek cruise liner sailing.

The cruise ship mts oceanos sunk in storms off south africa in 1991 after setting sail with a 10cm. More than 500 passengers and crew members were saved today in a tense rescue operation when a Greek cruise ship sank in the storm-tossed Indian Ocean barely two miles off the rugged South African. The notorious master of the vessel was Captain Yiannis Avranas.