1991 Sinking Of Cruise Ship

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1991 sinking of cruise ship. She was launched in 1931 as Monterey serving alongside her sister Lurline for Matson Lines offering cruises to Hawaii from the USA. In addition Readers Digest magazine published a detailed article in their November 1991 issue and they asked Moss Hills and his wife Tracy for as much detail as possible including emotions and personal memories of events prior to and during the sinking of the Oceanos. The Oceanos a 7554-ton cruise liner was steaming on a weekend voyage from East London to Durban when the ship lost power late Saturday.

The next day the vessels departure for Durban was delayed because of terrible weather. Soviet cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov sinking on 16 February 1986. Imagine the titanic sinking with 1500 people still on board.

The ship was built. After the sinking of the Oceanos on 4th August 1991 the principal people involved in the rescue had to give official statements of events. Cruise Ship Sinks Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa.

Everyone on board the cruise ship Oceanos was safe and accounted for Monday but survivors angrily accused the captain of taking one of the first rescue helicopters to. The Oceanos was a Greek cruise liner sailing the South African coast from Cape Town to Durban passing Coffee Bay off the Wild Coast an area known for treacherous currents and ship wrecks. The Oceanos cruise ship sank off the coast of Coffee Bay on the afternoon of 4 August 1991.

See all the pictures from the dramatic evacuation. The 1991 sinking of the cruise ship Oceanos was anything but ideal explained Herring. Tonight on DatelineNBC they are doing a special about the sinking of the Greek cruise ship Oceanos.

Mts oceanos was a french built and greek owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 due to uncontrolled flooding. 19 rows List of shipwrecks. The oceanos cruise ship was sinking and the italan crew have left the ship and passangers to fend for themselfs.