Cruise Ship Disaster 2015

China cruise ship disaster MV Dongfang zhi Xing Eastern Star 1 June 2015.

Cruise ship disaster 2015. In 2015 a court found Schettino guilty of manslaughter causing a shipwreck abandoning ship before passengers and crew were evacuated and lying to authorities about the disaster. 396 Confirmed Dead in China Ship Sinking. On the night of April 14 the Titanic struck an iceberg that damaged the hull on the port side of the ship.

A French man Jean Christophe Allain age 45 and his. Several of the ships crew notably. Ship sinks in Chinas Yangtze River Cheng MinXINHUALANDOV.

The ship was only days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Anger and resignation at scene of Chinese cruise ship sinking. MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China.

More than 840 of its 2500 passengers died in the accident. 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. Explorer of the Seas.

It first struck on February 15 infecting 411 passengers. If youre trying to dissuade someone from taking a cruise you should show them this list of maritime misadventures which is. 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.

Francesco Schettino had steered the 126000-ton vessel dangerously close to. For todays video we decided to do the top five cruise ship disasters. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.