16 Cruise Ships Have Sunk Since 1980
Ferry Neptune Sank on 16 February 1993.
16 cruise ships have sunk since 1980. According to the New York Times only 16 ships have sunk since 1980. The chances of your cruise ship capsizing or sinking are infinitesimally rare. October 21 1988 near Piraeus Greece.
Of the 4200 passengers and crew onboard there were 32 casualties. MS Sea Diamond. Ship sank in 40 minutes.
All passengers and crew are successfully evacuated. In fact the last cruise ship that sank purely due to flooding in rough weather was the MTS Oceanos off South Africas Wild Coast back in 1990 and she was an ocean liner-turned cruise ship. Has a Carnival cruise ship ever sank.
Sinking When the Costa Concordia a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation partly sank last year off Giglio Italy killing 32 people after hitting a submerged rock it was one of the first times a cruise ship had done so since the Explorer in 2007. From 1980 to 2012 about 16 ships have sunk. Other recent cruise ship sinkings include.
She was carrying 602 passengers and crew of whom only 34 were saved. Klein who created the site Cruise Junkie dozens of passenger ships have sunk from 1979 to 2013. The Times notes that from 1980 to 2012 about 16 cruise ships have sunk.
According to the New York Times 16 passenger ships have sunk since 1980 most of them ferries not cruise ships. When the Royal Pacific was first launched as a passenger ferry in 1964 it could carry 250 passengers 91 cars and 16 trucks. One of the largest sinkings in recent history that made global headlines was that of the Costa Concordia in 2012.
