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MV Jupiter was a Greek-registered cruise ship that sank on 21 October 1988, within 40 minutes of leaving the Greek port of Piraeus.On board were 391 British schoolchildren and 84 adults on a study cruise and 110 crew.
Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck of 18 April 2015 – A 25 m (82 ft) vessel, carrying migrants and refugees bound for Europe, foundered in Libyan waters south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. The vessel reportedly capsized after its occupants rushed to draw the attention of a passing merchant ship. Initial estimates put the death toll at 800.
The new itineraries proved largely unsuccessful, and on 2 January 2006, the ship was laid up in Mariehamn and put up for sale. In February 2006 she was sold to the Cyprus-based Louis Cruise Lines for US$35 million (€29.4 million). [4] [6] As built, the ship only had an indoor pool in the sauna section on deck 2 in the bow of the ship. [7]
The Mediterranean Sky sailed for the last time in 1996. She started listing after being laid up in Eleusis Bay, Greece. The abandoned ship was then towed to shallow water where she was beached on 26 November 2002. She capsized and sank by January 2003 with the half-submerged wreck still visible in 2024. [3] Wreck of Mediterranean Sky, 2011
Hungary has detained the captain of a Swiss-based cruise ship involved in a collision with a small motor boat on the Danube River late on Saturday that killed two people, with five others still ...
A scuba liveaboard vessel on the Red Sea. Liveaboard can mean: [1] Someone who makes a boat, typically a small yacht in a marina, their primary residence. Powerboats and cruising sailboats are commonly used for living aboard, as well as houseboats which are designed primarily as a residence. [2] A boat designed for people to live aboard it. [3]
One vessel’s fraught journey in the Mediterranean is part of a persistent problem: the apparent flouting of international maritime law by European states. ... 24/7 Help. For premium support ...
The Ocean 7 team were approached with regard to salvaging the yacht. Skippered by co-owner David de Villiers, Ocean 7 Adventurer set sail for the Southern Ocean and after locating the yacht, she was taken in tow with a 200 m (656 ft) line. This rescue set a record for the longest tow in South African maritime history (850 nmi (1,574 km)).