Oceanos Cruise Ship Sinking 1991

The French-built Greek-owned cruise ship had been launched in 1952 and completed the next year.

Oceanos cruise ship sinking 1991. 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. 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. She was the last of four ships built for Messageries Maritimes and was christened Jean LabordeThe ship was renamed several times before coming into the possession of the Epirotiki Lines and registered at Piraeus Greece in 1976.

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. MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 due to uncontrolled flooding. The World witnessed an ugly scene back on 03 August 1991 when MTS Oceanos sunk in 1991 because of uncontrolled floods.

The sinking of Oceanos Photographs some taken by survivors document the cruise ship sinking off Southern Africas eastern coast in August 1991. The Oceanos cruise ship sank off the coast of Coffee Bay on the afternoon of 4 August 1991. In addition Readers Digest magazine published a detailed article in their November 1991 issue and they asked Moss Hills and his wife Tracy for as much detail as possible including emotions and personal memories of events prior to and during the sinking of the Oceanos.

Her captain and some of the crew were convicted of negligence for fleeing the ship without helping the passengers who were subsequently rescued thanks to the efforts of the ships entertainers. This is a simulation of the chain of events which led to the sink of the ship. Tonight on DatelineNBC they are doing a special about the sinking of the Greek cruise ship.

The 571 people aboard the ship were rescued in a dramatic operation Sunday that was completed only 90 minutes before the ship sank a mile from South Africas Indian Ocean coast near the. MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 due to uncontrolled flooding. Briefly News takes a look at a history piece on the MTS Oceanos cruise ship.

The ships entertainers had to coordinate the rescue of 571 passengers after the captain and crew. August 4 1991. The ship was built in France and owned by a Greek cruise ship company.