Cruise Ship Sinking South Africa

On August 3 1991 Oceanos set sail for East London South Africa and headed north for Durban led by Captain Yiannis Avranas.

Cruise ship sinking south africa. Crew and passengers saved by South African Air Force 1991. On 3 August 1991 the Oceanos set sail from East London headed east for Durban. Captain of Oceanos abandons ship and leaves crew and.

In November 1965 89 people died when the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle caught fire and sank in the Caribbean. Oceanos sinks off Wild Coast of South Africa. 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.

Photographs some taken by survivors document the cruise ship sinking off Southern Africas eastern coast in August 1991. 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 Oceanos sinking was exceptional because the cruise ship rescue and abandon ship procedures went terribly wrong.

The Oceanos was a Greek cruise liner sailing. Under certain conditions they can reach heights of 75 to more than 100 feet high enough to capsize a cruise ship if the ship were to be hit broadside. The cruise ship mts oceanos sunk in storms off south africa in 1991 after setting sail with a 10cm.

South African Transport Minister Piet Welgemoed announced a maritime inquiry into the sinking of the 7554-ton ship in seas with 24-foot waves. The passenger cruise ship Oceanos sank 4th August 1991. 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. By the following day the Oceanos was a. According to Lubin an investigation as to the.