Oceanos Cruise Ship Sinking 1991

Mts OCEANOS was a French built and Greek owned cruise ship which sank off the South Africas eastern coast in August 1991.

Oceanos cruise ship sinking 1991. The ships entertainers had to coordinate the rescue of 571 passengers after the captain and crew. The Oceanos a 7554-ton cruise liner was steaming on a weekend voyage from East London to Durban when the ship lost power late Saturday. August 4 1991.

The master of the cruise ship MV Oceanos who in the fall of 1991 off the coast of Africa breached this custom by fleeing his sinking ship while hundreds of passengers remained aboard soon learned the dishonour that attends such a too-hasty abandonment. Tonight on DatelineNBC they are doing a special about the sinking of the Greek cruise ship. In 1994 Avranas British wife Davina published a book about the sinking titled The Oceanos Tragedy.

The sinking of the cruise ship oceanos. MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 due to uncontrolled flooding. Oceanos is one of the documented tragedies ever to happen in the sea and following a probe by maritime authorities the captain and his crew were found to have been negligent.

Briefly News takes a look at a history piece on the MTS Oceanos cruise ship. The cruise ship Oceanos sank in 1991 off the South African coast. The oceanos cruise ship was sinking and the italan crew have left the ship and passangers to fend for themselfs.

The ships were used on the Marseille - Madagascar - Mauritius service. MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 due to uncontrolled flooding. The ship was built in France and owned by a Greek cruise ship company.

In addition Readers Digest magazine published a detailed article in their November 1991 issue and they asked Moss Hills and his wife Tracy for as much detail as possible including emotions and personal memories of events prior to and during the sinking of the Oceanos. She was the last of four ships built for Messageries Maritimes and was christened Jean LabordeThe ship was renamed several times before coming into the possession of the Epirotiki Lines and registered at Piraeus Greece in 1976. The French-built Greek-owned cruise ship had been launched in 1952 and completed the next year.