Cruise Ship Disaster 2015

The cruise ship owned by Louis Hellenic Cruises sank on April 6 2007 after ramming a reef near the Aegean island of Santorini with 1195 passengers and 391 crew on board.

Cruise ship disaster 2015. Francesco Schettino had steered the 126000-ton vessel dangerously close to. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. A total of 396 people have been confirmed.

Cruise ships are basically floating disaster zones just waiting to happen and over the years thousands of unlucky passengers and crew members have found themselves at the mercy of pirates nature and incompetent captains. World News Agence France-Presse Saturday June 6 2015. BEIJING A cruise ship disaster in central China this year that killed all but a dozen of the hundreds of people aboard was caused by violent weather according to the findings.

The Costa Cruises-run ships hull was ripped after the liner ran aground Friday. 7 of the worlds worst cruise ship disasters. On the night of 1 June 2015 the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when it capsized during a thunderstorm in Jianli Hubei Province with 454 people on board.

On 13 June 442 deaths were confirmed with 12 survivors. It had been touted as unsinkable and set sail amongst great fanfare. Forty-eight hours after a Chinese cruise ship carrying 456 people capsized and sank on the Yangtze river anger and frustration is growing among relatives of those feared to have died.

More than 840 of its 2500 passengers died in the accident. The Carnival Triumph cruise from hell. The judges sentenced an employee of DNV Det Norske Veritas which deemed the cruise ship seaworthy to eight years.

The Titanic may be the most famous ship disaster but surprisingly its not even close to being the deadliest wreck that ever occurred on a luxury liner. The ship was only days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The 76 meter long four-deck river passenger ship Eastern Star Dongfangzhixing capsized and sank on the Yangtze River in the Wuhan Damazhou area.