South Africa Cruise Ship Sinking

Oceanos sinks off Wild Coast of South Africa.

South africa cruise ship sinking. The wreckage was finally found and fully identified in 2004 when divers brought a part of her bow with a. In that case Mr. The ship which had.

It was owned by Epirotiki Lines of Greece and chartered by a South African company TFC Tours. On board were 571 passengers and crew sailing into. The ships crew had failed to replace ventilation pipes it removed during repairs.

Mike van Dijk a 54-year-old from Pretoria South Africa said crew members delayed lowering the lifeboats even though the ship was listing badly. Braynard said the captain of a rescue vessel. São José Paquete Africa.

The MV Oceanos was a 153m passenger ship built in 1952 and designed to carry 550 passengers and 250 crew. The Oceanos cruise liner begins sinking off the Wild Coast. Hi My name is Rose I am one of the Survivors of the Oceanos which sank off Coffee Bay on the Wild Coast of South Africa on August the 4th 1991.

Authorities have not revealed what. Mike van Dijk a 54-year-old from Pretoria South Africa said crew members delayed lowering the lifeboats even thought the ship was listing badly. Oceanos Sinks off South Africa August 16 1991 While all 571 passengers and crew were safely rescued from the sinking Oceanos off the coast of South Africa the cause of the ships flooding and subsequent sinking has still not been determined according to Art Lubin President of Epirotiki Lines.

The County of Pembroke a British cargo ship was shipwrecked in Algoa Bay in 1903. The notorious master of the vessel was Captain Yiannis Avranas. In November 1965 89 people died when the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle caught fire and sank in the Caribbean.