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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.
At approximately 7:30 a.m. EST on December 22, 2024, [6] [7] on a stationary F train at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station, a man approached the only other passenger on the train car, a woman who was sleeping, [3] [8] using a lighter to set fire to her clothing. The victim became engulfed in flames in a matter of seconds.
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 ...
A man being charged with killing two women, including his ex-girlfriend, was attacked in a New Mexico courtroom by one of the victim's family members. Alexander Ortiz, 21, appeared in Bernalillo ...
Jerry Boylan was in charge of the Conception when the fatal fire broke out aboard in 2019
A man accused by Los Angeles residents of attempting to ignite a blaze around the area of the newly-sparked Kenneth fire has not been charged with arson, police said Friday.. The Kenneth blaze ...
The captain of a California dive boat that caught fire last year has been charged with manslaughter. Thirty-four people people were killed when they were trapped below deck as the boat burned.
A scuba dive boat captain was ordered Wednesday to pay about $32,000 in restitution to the families of three of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019. Wednesday’s restitution ...