Cruise Ship Sinking South Africa

The MV Oceanos was a 153m passenger ship built in 1952 and designed to carry 550 passengers and 250 crew.

Cruise ship sinking south africa. 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. They only occur though in areas such as the North Sea and parts of the Pacific near South Africa not places visited by cruise ships. 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 dishonor that attends such a too- hasty abandonment.

The Oceanos sinking was exceptional because the cruise ship rescue and abandon ship procedures went terribly wrong. There is a phenomenon called rogue waves. 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.

18 February 1982 A South African frigate that sank in deep water after a collision with its refueling ship SAS Tafelberg. By the following day the Oceanos was a. The oceanos cruise ship was sinking and the italan crew have left the ship and passangers to fend for themselfs.

The notorious master of the vessel was Captain Yiannis Avranas. On 3 August 1991 the Oceanos set sail from East London headed east for Durban. The coriolis effect does not affect the direction water flows down a plughole.

Cruise Ship Sinks Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa. The cruise ship oceanos sank in 1991 off the south african coast. The tradition is very strongly felt among mariners.

The Oceanos was a Greek cruise liner sailing. On board were 571 passengers and crew. In November 1965 89 people died when the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle caught fire and sank in the Caribbean.