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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.
In a paper published in 1998 in Nature, [1] Canfield argued that the deep ocean was anoxic and sulfidic (also known as euxinic) during the time of the Boring Billion (1.8–0.8 billion years ago (Gya)), and that those conditions ceased the mineral deposition of iron-rich banded iron formations (BIF) in ocean sediments.
Oceanus was the eldest of the Titan offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). [11] Hesiod lists his Titan siblings as Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. [12] Oceanus married his sister Tethys, and was by her the father of numerous sons, the river gods and numerous daughters, the ...
First phase of the Tethys Ocean's forming: the (first) Tethys Sea starts dividing Pangaea into two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana.. The Tethys Ocean (/ ˈ t iː θ ɪ s, ˈ t ɛ-/ TEETH-iss, TETH-; Greek: Τηθύς Tēthús), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
The Toarcian extinction event, also called the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event, [1] [2] the Early Toarcian mass extinction, [3] the Early Toarcian palaeoenvironmental crisis, [4] or the Jenkyns Event, [5] [6] [7] was an extinction event that occurred during the early part of the Toarcian age, approximately 183 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic.
The modern fern Azolla filiculoides.Blooms of a related species may have pulled the Earth into the current icehouse world.. The Azolla event is a paleoclimatology scenario hypothesized to have occurred in the middle Eocene epoch, [1] around , when blooms of the carbon-fixing freshwater fern Azolla are thought to have happened in the Arctic Ocean.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology Not to be confused with Chronos, the personification of time. For other uses, see Cronus (disambiguation). Cronus Leader of the Titans Rhea offers the stone to Cronus, red-figure ceramic vase c. 460-450 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...