Cruise Ship Oceanos Disaster

Achille Lauro was made famous by a 1985 hijacking but became a popular cruise ship with the South African public in the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s when she sailed several successful cruise.

Cruise ship oceanos disaster. August 4 1991 MTS Oceanos Greek-owned cruise ship sank in 1991 in stormy conditions off the coast of South Africa. We read time and time again about disasters like this rust buckets being put to sea but nothing is really ever done about it. Next time the passengers may not be as lucky as the Oceanos I was reading about the Costa Concordia debacle thats going on now and started looking up other cruise ship disasters when I read that.

The ships were used on the Marseille - Madagascar - Mauritius service. Mts oceanos was a french built and greek owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 due to uncontrolled flooding. The sea that day was not happy it was grey and dark and angry even a big ship like the Oceanos was tossed around in.

In May two cruise ships the Island Princess Princess Cruises and the Regent Sea Regency Cruises collided in Alaskan waters. Imagine the titanic sinking with 1500 people still on board. Mts OCEANOS was a French built and Greek owned cruise ship which sank off the South Africas eastern coast in August 1991.

Seamen have expressed almost universal outrage at Capt. Achille Lauro and Oceanos are the two most famous of the cruise ships that temporarily cruised roundtrip from South Africa in those pioneering days of the South African cruise market. Passengers aboard the cruise ship Oceanos begin to panic when the ship starts sinkingTo make matters worse the captain and most of the crew have already ab.

The crew abandoned ship leaving the passengers behind. They were all saved by guitarist Moss Hills who radioed for help and directed the rescue operation. Its just a blackout Pressure mounts on cruise ship divers.

Launched July 1952 by Forges Chantiers de la Gironde in Bordeaux as the Jean Laborde it was the last of 4 sister ships built for Messageries Maritimes. She headed into 40-knot winds and 9 m 30 ft swells. The master of the cruise ship MV Oceanos who in the fall of 1991 off the coast of Africa breached this custom by fleeing his sinking ship while hundreds of passengers remained aboard soon learned the dishonour that attends such a too-hasty abandonment.