South Africa Cruise Ship Sinking

Luxury Greek liner Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa when the engine room floods.

South africa cruise ship sinking. The Oceanos final voyage was a seven-day sail along the South African shore from Durban to Cape Town and back again. We had to scream at the controllers to release. On a luxury cruise ship the Titanic of Noahs Arks if you will every nationality in the world is represented on board.

On board were 571 passengers and crew sailing into. Hi My name is Rose I am one of the Survivors of the Oceanos which sank off Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast of South Africa on August the 4th 1991. Mike van Dijk a 54-year-old from Pretoria South Africa said crew members delayed lowering the lifeboats even though the ship was listing badly.

The County of Pembroke a British cargo ship was shipwrecked in Algoa Bay in 1903. The Oceanos was a Greek cruise liner sailing the South African coast from Cape Town to Durban passing Coffee Bay off the Wild Coast an area known for treacherous currents and ship wrecks. The Oceanos cruise liner begins sinking off the Wild Coast.

Authorities have not revealed what. Crew and passengers saved by South African Air Force 1991. The notorious master of the vessel was Captain Yiannis Avranas.

However it was unlikely that the vessel was unseaworthy because the Lloyds Register classification is applicable to all ships allowed in South African waters. 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 night and went adrift off. São José Paquete Africa.

Braynard said the captain of a rescue vessel. As one of the largest rescues in maritime history I was rescued by helicopter 2 hours before she. Oceanos sinks off Wild Coast of South Africa.