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MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 when she suffered uncontrolled flooding. Her captain, Yiannis Avranas, 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 ship's entertainers, who made a mayday transmission, launched lifeboats, and helped ...
Yiannis Avranas (born ca. 1940) is a Greek former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship Oceanos when she sank off the Wild Coast of the Transkei, South Africa, on Sunday 4 August 1991. He was one of the first to be rescued while most of his passengers remained onboard the sinking ship.
Oceanos (1976–1991) She was built in 1953 as Jean Laborde. Later renamed Pierre Lotti for Efthymiadis Lines for Patras-Igoumenitsa-Ancona route. She later renamed as Oceanos for Epirotiki. The ship finally sank near Coffee Bay on 4 August 1991. Hermes (1976–2005) She was built in 1956 as Jugoslavia.
What started out as a celebration on a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily ended in tragedy on Monday, Aug. 19, when the craft — the 183-foot-long Bayesian — is said to have sunk quickly into ...
The results come amid conspiracy theories suggesting a connection between the sinking of the yacht and the acquittal ... “The problem with this story is that there was a smaller boat moored near ...
Ships that sunk with no one dying as a result of the sinking. Pages in category "Ships sunk with no fatalities" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
This, for the first time, is the inside story of how the Sea Story sank, as told by those who made it out alive. [BBC] The luxury dive boat set off from Port Ghaleb on Egypt's Red Sea Coast on 24 ...
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking in 1956, which included the remarkably successful rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew.