South Africa Cruise Ship Sinking

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EAST LONDON South Africa Everyone on board the cruise ship Oceanos was safe and accounted for Monday but survivors angrily accused the captain of taking one of the first rescue helicopters to. Sadly there arent enough boats for everyone. On board were 571 passengers and crew sailing into.

The MV Oceanos was a 153m passenger ship built in 1952 and designed to carry 550 passengers and 250 crew. In November 1965 89 people died when the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle caught fire and sank in the Caribbean. It was owned by Epirotiki Lines of Greece and chartered by a South African company TFC Tours.

Two dozen people aboard a sinking ship were rescued by a Carnival Cruise Line vessel Saturday. São José Paquete Africa. The wreckage was finally found and fully identified in 2004 when divers brought a part of her bow with a.

The ship which had. Authorities have not revealed what. Mike van Dijk a 54-year-old from Pretoria South Africa said crew members delayed lowering the lifeboats even thought the ship was listing badly.

Oceanos Sinks off South Africa August 16 1991 While all 571 passengers and crew were safely rescued from the sinking Oceanos off the coast of South Africa the cause of the ships flooding and subsequent sinking has still not been determined according to Art Lubin President of Epirotiki Lines. However when the ship sailed out of one of the harbours on this first cruise the passengers on the open deck felt a shudder and thought the ship had hit the bottom. But suddenly the ship springs a leak and begins to sink.