Diamond Cruise Ship Sinking

Divers and coastguard patrols.

Diamond cruise ship sinking. The government has also pointed to human error as the key factor that led to the accident last week. Captain Yiannis Marinos has blamed a current for pushing the Sea Diamond off course and onto a well-marked reef. Two French passengers were never found and.

In both cases the captains poor navigational skills recklessness and negligence in efficiently. 22007 Louis Plc announced the findings of specialist company Akti Engineering who provided a mapping of the area of the accident of the Sea Diamond showing serious errors in the charts of the area. Two French cruise passengers drown.

In this verbatim interview by Michael Poirier a young survivor of the April 2007 Sea Diamond sinking Zak Hayes recalls the experience of evacuation at sea. The Piraeus appeals court ruled that the captain of the Louis Hellenic. For 13 years the Greek government has failed to.

Some 1600 passengers and crew were safely evacuated but a 45-year-old French passenger and his teenage daughter are presumed to have drowned though divers were unable to locate any. Five people found guilty last year for their part in the sinking of the Sea Diamond cruise ship off Santorini in 2007 which caused the deaths of two passengers were cleared on appeal Friday but the convictions of three others were not overturned. The vessel has taken a.

However the picture record clearly shows here final sinking in the area indicated. An image taken from Greek TV station ALPHA footage shows the bow of the Greek cruise ship Sea Diamond as the ship sinks off the island of Santorini on April 6 2007. Sinking of cruise ship Sea Diamond in waters near Santorini Greece About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How.

Nothing I read mentioned the ship being moved after the passengers were evacuated. In April 2020 it will be 13 years since the state-of-the-art cruise ship Sea Diamond sank after hitting a volcanic rock off the Greek island of Santorini resulting in the death of two French passengers. The 469-foot Sea Diamond was operated by Louis Cruise Lines part of a Cyprus-based tourism group.