Sun Vista Cruise Ship Sinking

Sun Vista cruise ship we sailed from Singapore to Phuket in Thailand stopping at Malacca and Penang in Malaysia this ship took the Malacca straights as her.

Sun vista cruise ship sinking. The picture that emerges from the report is that the ship was in such poor mechanical and safety-related condition that the BMA questions whether it. This post takes us back to 1997 the SUNDREAM is seen secured for sea ready for another departure from Barcelona. On Thursday 20 May 1999 a Bahamas-registered cruise ship Sun Vista operated by a Singapore company Sun Cruises caught fire in the Malacca Strait southwest of Penang.

The crew of the Singapore-owned Sun Vista was said to have panicked during the evacuation and passengers including 146 Britons had to spend up to eight hours in the open boats before being. It sank in the Atlantic after a collision with another cruise ship. January 2020 February 2020 March 2020 April 2020 May 2020 June 2020.

The Gazette understands that everyone on board was. The Sun Vista slowly sank deeper and deeper by the stern for seven hours. A stinging report by the Bahamas Maritime Authority BMA on the sinking in the Malacca Straits of the Singapore cruise ship Sun Vista in May last year cites serious deficiencies in the vessel its safety and life-saving equipment and safety management system.

Approx 45miles West of Penang Malaysis in the Andaman Sea. All the passengers and crew were saved through the timely evacuation of the ship and the swift response and effective handling by the Malaysian. The 210-meter ship which was en route to Singapore with 472 passengers and 632 crew went down about 60 nautical miles south of Penang.

Beautiful photo by Tim Noble showing the 1963 built GALILEO GALILEI here as the SUN VISTA arriving the Singapore Cruise Terminal in 1997 prior to start her first cruise operated by SUN CRUISES. Admiral Nakhimov sank got rammed 31st Aug 1986. Sun Vista - WRECKINSTAGRAM OFFICIAL.

The ship was built in 1970 by WARTSILA in Finland as the SONG OF NORWAY to Royal Caribbean she was 18416 GRT with a top speed of 22 knots the vessel was lengthened by 24 meters in 1978 the GRT was. Mikhail Lermontov sank hit rocks in shallow water 16th Feb 1986. The Sun Vista caught fire at about 715pm 1115 GMT on Thursday and sank some eight hours later about 90km 60 miles south of Penang Island in the Andaman Sea.