Cruise Ship Sinking South Africa

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Cruise ship sinking south africa. On board were 571 passengers and crew. Oceanos Sinks off South Africa. More than 500 passengers and crew members were saved today in a tense rescue operation when a Greek cruise ship sank in the storm-tossed Indian Ocean barely two miles off the rugged South African.

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 dishonor that attends such a too- hasty abandonment. The ship however never arrived in Durban. The sinking of Oceanos.

The MV Oceanos was a 153m passenger ship built in 1952 and designed to carry 550 passengers and 250 crew. The masters actions during the sinking of the Oceanos raised a number of questions. There is a phenomenon called rogue waves.

In November 1965 89 people died when the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle caught fire and sank in the Caribbean. The tradition is very strongly felt among mariners. 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 sinking was exceptional because the cruise ship rescue and abandon ship procedures went terribly wrong. The Oceanos cruise liner begins sinking off the Wild Coast. The passenger cruise ship Oceanos sank 4th August 1991.

They only occur though in areas such as the North Sea and parts of the Pacific near South Africa not places visited by cruise ships. Briefly News looks at the sinking of the MTS OCeanos in South Africa. On board were 571 passengers and crew sailing into a storm which would soon claim another ship.