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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 ...
Instead of retreating, Miller charged forward and eliminated a machine gun team and several fighters who were keeping his teammates pinned. Seeing that his team was still in danger, he charged forward again using his M249 SAW and fragmentation grenades to kill and/or wound at least 10 insurgents. Only once his team had found cover did he begin ...
A former dive boat captain was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday on a negligence conviction known as “seaman’s manslaughter” after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on ...
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday dismissed the criminal indictment against a dive boat captain charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 people when the vessel caught fire and sank off ...
A captain has been found guilty of “seaman’s manslaughter” over a blaze that killed 34 people asleep on a scuba diving boat off California.. Jerry Boylan was in charge of the Conception when ...
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.
Captain Swenson voluntarily exited the vehicle, exposing himself to enemy fire, to locate and recover three fallen Marines and one fallen Navy corpsman. His exceptional leadership and stout resistance against the enemy during six hours of continuous fighting rallied his teammates and effectively disrupted the enemy's assault.