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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 ...
The Bayou Corne sinkhole (French: Doline de Bayou Corne) was created from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern operated by Texas Brine Company and owned by Occidental Petroleum. The sinkhole , located near the community of Bayou Corne in northern Assumption Parish , Louisiana , was discovered on August 3, 2012, and 350 nearby residents were ...
Cofferdam [1] containment dome under construction at Wild Well Control in Port Fourchon, Louisiana on April 26. Wild Well has built all of the containment devices used in the spill to date. [2] "Top Hat" being deployed on May 11. Q4000 in back right and the Discoverer Enterprise in the foreground on May 26 during the failed top kill procedure.
Rip currents are one of the most dangerous beach hazards, killing roughly 100 Americans per year. Here's how to identify them and stay safe over the July 4 holiday.
Oceanos Greece: 4 August 1991 A cruise liner that sank off the Transkei coast, after leaving East London en route to Durban. [20: Santissimo Sacramento Portugal: 1647 A Portuguese vessel wrecked at Sardinia Bay near Port Elizabeth
New video has emerged from Malibu Beach, Californian along the Pacific Coast Highway, showing the remains of a long stretch of oceanfront homes that were destroyed by the Palisades Fire.
Pontchartrain Beach was an amusement park located in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. It was founded by Harry J. Batt Sr. (grandfather of American actor Bryan Batt ) and later managed and owned by his sons, Harry J. Batt Jr. and John A. Batt.
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...