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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.
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 ...
Richard Cruz, the owner and captain of the boat, and Jaime Pinilla Gomez, the boat’s pilot, are accused of causing the drowning deaths of the 7-year-old boy and 48-year-old woman in July 2022.
Costa Concordia, commanded by Captain Francesco Schettino at the time of grounding. Francesco Schettino (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko sketˈtiːno]; born 14 November 1960) [1] is an Italian former shipmaster who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when the ship struck an underwater rock and capsized off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012.
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.
The man behind the wheel of a boat that crashed into a reef near San Diego Sunday with more than 30 smuggled passengers on board was charged in federal court Wednesday.
Two men had been shot dead; Gilmore and two others were wounded. After all others had entered the sub and Gilmore found that time was critically short, he gave his last order: "Take her down." The executive officer, hearing his order, closed the hatch and submerged the crippled boat, saving the rest of the crew from the attack of the Japanese ...
All the teens are facing murder and being charged as adults. A third suspect turned themselves in on Monday, days after the shooting, according to local outlets Fox 5 and Atlanta News First .