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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 ...
The captain was subsequently sentenced to 36 years in prison for his role in the deaths of the passengers, and was also given a life sentence, after being found guilty of murder of the 304 passengers that did not survive. June 1, 2015: The Chinese captain of the river cruise ship Dong Fang Zhi Xing left the ship before most passengers were ...
New Yorker, 30, charged with killing millionaire dad at luxe Irish resort during mental health crisis. Olivia Land. November 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM.
A scuba dive boat captain found guilty of so-called “seaman’s manslaughter” has been sentenced to four years behind bars in Los Angeles after 34 people died in a fire onboard his vessel ...
– Fire captain James Schwalm, from Collingwood, Ontario, has admitted to the second-degree murder of his wife, Ashley Schwalm, after initially staging her death as a car crash. In a court ...
Originally charged with murder, Sim pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and concealing evidence, and sentenced to ten years in jail on 27 January 1975. [171] Murdered 2 days 1974 Gloria Nadine Knutson: 19 United States of America A student who disappeared while walking home from a Vancouver, Washington nightclub on May 31, 1974.
Gabriel Sean Esparza, the 20-year-old son of a Los Angeles County fire captain, has been charged with multiple felonies including murder, kidnapping and attempted rape of 19-year-old Andrea Vazquez.