This is another of those incidents where the captain and crew abandoned ship without any attempt even to save the passengers, or even to warn them of danger. The passengers were left to discover for themselves that the ship was sinking, and it was the entertainment crew who organized the evacuation of the ship.
Actually on the Titanic it was more like first class first. A higher percentage of first class men survived than third class women and even children. Of course sailing with many more passengers than lifeboats didn't help either.
It was not in regulations at the time for sufficient lifeboats bc they could make trips between sinking ship and rescue ship. In the case of Titanic, no one came to help until 4 hours later.
Credit to the old girl for holding out long enough for everyone to be evacuated safely, out of all the footage of sinking ships I’ve seen here was probably the most stately and peaceful, and well earned last dive
It's an amazing story! The cruise director, magician, and guitarist carried out the rescue mission after the captain & crew aborted the ship. (Cowards!). They helped the 900 passengers into remaining lifeboats, and some were airlifted by the South African navy, and some placed in small rafts. In the end, all passengers survived. Truly a miracle!
While I agree, there a few details that are slightly off and I wanted to inform you to help prevent the unintentional spread of misinformation. First, while the captain did attempt to abound on ship with the rest of the crew, he was dragged back on board after the entertainment crew found him trying to board a lifeboat. He was actually the first airlifted, where he was immediately berated for abandoning ship upon returning. Second, the number was closer to around 570, not 900.
Couple of other points: it's not too obvious, but they're a little over 3 miles offshore, and if you look carefully at the video there's no shortage of rescue vessels in the area. Plenty uncomfortable, especially with the wind and wave action, but it's not like they were in mid-Atlantic with practically no assistance. Or Lake Superior during a hardcore Arctic storm.
What’s fascinating is the similarity between Oceanos and Britannic during the final plunge. In Oceanos case, the ship was 502 ft long, and sank in waters roughly 300 ft deep. Around time stamp 6:08 , the bow hits bottom, and the ship slowly falls on its starboard side as it slips beneath the waves. Wish there was wreck footage showing the crushed bow section, however, I have yet to come across any.
@@foureyeddragon00 Someone else can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s a mixture of dirt/dust/exhaust gases that are being forced out of the ship by the water flooding the lower levels
Update : August 2021 Two passengers Neal Shaw and Mick O’Mahoney who helped get off people from the stricken ship have been given bravery awards by National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) of South Africa Only 30 years after the event, but better late than never Well done to both of them
I was living nearby in Transkei when this accident happened. A member of the crew, Moss Hills was the hero of the day .. he made the original Mayday distress calls and then coordinated the rescue. His wife also assisted together with a few others. The Captain and the technical crew had just abandoned the ship. It was a miracle THAT Not a single person lost their life. WELL DONE MOSS HILLS !!
He then had misfortune of his next ship being the Achille Lauro and he was aboard her when she burned and sank. I think he’s sticking to nightclubs now.
Oh my goodness, my family was on the Oceanos a day or two before it sank. We disembarked in East London before it carried on to Durban (and didn't make it).
The bow was coming and going with every wave, struggling to stay afloat, slowly losing. But (at 5:04) once the water started getting into the funnel the ship's fight for bouyancy was over. It went fast after that.
You can see her give a lurch just a surge or two before the funnel goes under. She's starting to go really fast at that point, but yes, when the funnel goes under, she dives.
Its fortunate that no lives were lost here, but no thanks to the crew who buggered off and left the passengers to fend for themselves. The captain should have done jail time for that.
Let me put it this way, should you be arrested because you abandoned ship before another human being? Edit: stop liking this comment its fucking stupid
Dale Potter as a captain of a vessel you have the duty to protect and inform whomever steps on your fleet. And while you bring up the point of human beings, as human beings, shouldn’t we all be helping each other? Your comment suggests we should all fend for ourselves. Yikes man. Hope I don’t run into you on a ship.
This has nothing in common with Concordia, and this capten did NOT; I say again did NOT abandon his ship like the Concordia Italian one did...If you dont have more to add than shit so please keep quiet unstead,
Mohammed Tofigh Wikipedia says "eyewitness accounts reveal that many of the crew, including Captain Avranas, were already packed and ready to depart, seemingly unconcerned with the safety of the passengers.[3]" s no alarm or announcement was given that the ship was in trouble, several passengers went to the bridge to look for the captain but found it unmanned.Captain Yiannis Avranas and the crew were criticized by passengers for leaving hundreds behind with no one other than the ship's onboard entertainers to help them evacuate. Avranas claimed that he left the ship first to arrange for a rescue effort, and then supervised the rescue from a helicopter. He justified his actions saying that the "ship was in darkness and the batteries on the crew's walkie-talkies had died, meaning that he had no communications with his crew or with other rescue craft".[10] Avranas was quoted as saying "When I order abandon the ship, it doesn't matter what time I leave. Abandon is for everybody. If some people like to stay, they can stay."[11] A Greek board of inquiry found Avranas and four officers negligent in their handling of the disaster.
Munizipalc Degrab I saw a long documentary on this incident; it started as an engine fire, the crew decided to mask this with an impromptu deck barbeque. Once it had been established they could not cope. The crew packed their suitcases and took to a lifeboat and sailed away leaving passengers to deal with the problem. A guitarist contacted the emergency services on the ships radio to raise the alarm. The captain later commented that it was his duty to save the crew. In many respects it is like the Concordia but in general it was a lot more selfish.
Just like a truck driver like myself. Im responsible for my truck and trailer and cargo. And for helping all the other idiot drivers stay safe on the road no matter how much they piss me off. The old slang for a trucker captain of the ship
No who cares about the passengers i'm the captain of the ship only to get some bitches on my dick but if the ship is about to sink fuck im out it's what we in the business say: in case of emergency initiate the everyone for himself protocol.
I think it's so funny how humans invent these machines, make up the training for them, create titles like captain, invent rules and regulations...and then forget that humans are innately driven to save themselves in the face of danger. What is captain? Nothing just a made up word.
+Angel Monica Wow that's rude comment of yours. Before calling someone a dumbass you should be aware that there were only three ships of the Olympia class ships of the White Star Liners. The Olympia, The Titanic and The Brittanic. Only the Olympia survived except its been scrapped. The Titanic and the Brittanic are the only ones that sank. I don't know why you need to be so rude and ignorant all at the same time.
Angel Monica 6 sisters? You really haven't done your history have you? I'll say it again. In the White Star Line, Titanic was one of the THREE ships of the Olympian class liners. Won't you do your research.
As terrifying and deep as the sinking looks, the ship is actually longer than the depth where it lies on its side. The Oceanos was 153 m (502 ft) long and lies between 92 m (302 ft) and 97 m (318 ft). Looking at the video, it looks like the ship's bow must have hit the bottom straight down causing a temporary stop in the sinking before causing it to start leaning to starboard.
The ship got sunk, but the worst thing is.. the captain and the crew abandoned the ship and didnt help. Thats very bad! Big props to the entertaiment crew. They made people live. Good thing atleast everyone got saved.
The water was so shallow at this position that bow of the ship hits bottom while the aft quarter of the ship is still above the waves. You can see it happen as the ship is sinking then just stops and stands there pivoting on the bow as the upper compartments slowly fill and then she slowly and reluctantly falls over onto her starboard side and vanishes from sight. And that is how divers found her, in shallow water on her starboard side
I remember seeing this on the news when I was very young and at the time I thought the objects sliding down the decks at 6:02 were people. It's relieving to finally know years later that nobody died in the sinking. Props to the entertainers on board the ship and the South African Marine Corps for getting boots on the deck to evacuate passengers after the captain and senior crew fled the ship.
Beside the horrifying story and amazing rescue by the brave entertainment staff, the added horror is that neither the captain nor any member of the crew was ever prosecuted or punished for the criminal negligence that could have cost hundreds of lives, and in fact, the captain was allowed to captain another ship until he retired!
yeah like the captain of the Costa Concordia...the captain and others on the crew left the sinking ship . he's in prison right now the captain . it's really great to hear the coast guard yelling at the captain to get back on the ship and save ppls lives.. coward. he said that he gave the order to abandon ship, and that meant anyone who wanted off the ship to go...
Small comment, when Simonstown (Cape town) saw the distress on the maritime radio, they informed Air Force command for assitance with Helicopters. The officer commanding instructed Cape Town to send 2 Heli's, Durban to send 2 Heli's and Pretoria to send 2 heli's. When he enquired an hour later, Cape Town Air base dispatched 5 Helicopters, Durban 3 Helicopters, and Pretoria 5 Helicopters. At that stage only 3 other helicopters were kept back as a standby. (remember this was the apartheid years, and the defence force was on standby 24 hrs a aday) Steven Moss, and his wife (on ship entertainers, now living in the UK) co ordinated the whole evacuation on ship, and the SADF airforce and Maritime command co ordinated from shore with the chopppers, Dakota's and Albatross aircraft. not a soul was lost, the most succesfull rescue of a Cruise liner to date. Hope it will not be needed now, as the new RSA do not fly enough to keep flight hours current a year. welcome to Africa
I’m not religious but it is a miracle that everyone was ok. I just heard the story on the radio about Moss Hills the guitarist taking the lead to save and keep everyone calm.
a valve that pulled seawater in to cool machinery burst, there was a cutout in a pipe which led to the sewage tank that allowed water to bypass the watertight bulkheads and flow into the tank next door. When the tank flooded the water went through the drainage system and out every toilet, shower, and sink, pretty soon the weight of the water pulled the ship down
Oceanos was launched in 1952 as Jean Laborde for Messageries Maritimes. At the time of her sinking she was in a state of disrepair, with loose hull plates and a 10 cm gap under a "watertight" bulkhead.
I believe the captain and many of the crew were some of the first people off the ship. The Cruise Director and some of the entertainment staff actually ended up being responsible for evacuating the passengers.
Makes my blood run cold. For all our brave science and supposed mastery of nature, there are still few more terrifying sights than the stern of a liner reared vertically before the final plunge. Thank God all souls got off!
I prob have one of those. The idea of being around the bottom of a ship near the water and shear size of the propellers is absolute horror to me. Just seeing it is a problem
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no witty comments as this post isnt for my own enjoyment but clarification. my uncle was the captain of the 1st vessel on the scene , captain frikkie auret from south africa , they rescued most until the sa navy pitched
I just looked it up - apparently most of the passengers were airlifted because the crew took off with mostly-empty lifeboats filled with the crew's personal belongings, leaving the passengers with not enough to escape. The rest were put in the remaining life boats. I can't find anything about non-coast guard rescue vessels. Can you tell me the name of the ship? Maybe that would make it easier to verify.
Captain to passengers: Attention passengers This is your captain speaking :if look down at your feet you will notice the floor is flooding by water this means your ship is currently sinking now if you look to your left side you will see the endless blue sea if you look to your right you will also see a wonderful blue sea but if you look at the distance you will notice a very small orange lifeboat don't worry about it's me your captain and my ship crew getting rescued thank you for choosing Oceanos to spend your holidays have a pleasant cruise !
Update : April 2022 For UK folk, there was a recent podcast on the BBC, called 'Life Changing' episode 'Mayday' where the story is told by Moss Hills. Worth a listen.
The story of the sinking is wild, and the way the captain and crew behaved is pure cowardice. Imagining abandoning ship without sending a mayday and without assisting passengers to evacuate.
Actually watched the TV programme "I Survived" which featured Lynne,a member of the staff who helped with the rescue,& was with 45 survivors in a leaking lifeboat with no emergency supplies! The cruiser had set out in a storm,and to make matters worse they were faced with white sharks!It's a miracle no lives were lost!Drivers lose their licence if they break certain traffic laws,so why on earth was the Captain allowed to pilot another ship!!??
Reminds me of the Andrea Doria. All that beauty and grace... gone... as though it never existed! And... just as it has done for thousands of years... the sea rolls on, hiding her secrets in her dark depths.....
If you had gotten to tour the machinery spaces you wouldn’t have seen beauty and grace, you would have seen a criminally negligent lack of maintenance.
Emocionante ver um navio de qualquer porte começando à afundar sem chance de socorrer a nave mas é triste ao mesmo tempo e nada poder fazer mas é uma casa a mais na vida marinha.
Pior que isso eu sinto quanto vejo algum navio afundando,especialmente o britannic que a gente ouça que o capitão fez de tudo pra tentar encalhar o navio mas nao obtendo sucesso. A parte mais emocionante são os passageiros sendo salvos,pois no meio de tanta morte que esteja envolvida...os que sobreviveram devem ser pelo milagre...um ser nao deixando elas morrerem de portemia ou por nao saber nadar mesmo
The ship had water flood in through a part of machinery and the water flowed through the pipes and up out of sinks and bathtubs and such. Eventually enough water had flooded the decks to cause the ship to list over and eventually sink. This is just the las few mins. The ship actually took a long time to get to this point and everybody made it off even tho a lot of the crew left before anybody knew what was going on. There was no PA or alarm. The main crew just left.
The crews on the tugs and cargo ships watching this would no doubt have felt terrible knowing that they were seeing another ship die. At least everyone got off the Oceanos before she went down.
".. until finally she's got her whole ass sticking up in the air, and that's a big ass, we're talking 20, 30 thousand tons...." . . . "Thank you for that fine, forensic analysis Mr. Bodine."
Very spectacular video and very impressive to see the ship sinking slowly, particularly the last two minutes, when the see enter into the funnel and quickly the ship disappear into the ocean.
Maybe it's a fitting end that she went into the sea. If she'd been able to hold on longer they probably would've floated, towed, and scrapped her, and then nothing of her would remain. At least now she'll stay a tangible ghost of the sea as well as a wonderful story. Way to go down with honours, _Oceanos._
Farewell noble vessel. It has been some time since you left the surface world. May your hallways, ballrooms, and guest quarters be filled with life once more, with the residents of the sea. May others celebrate living within your walls again.
beauanddustinunleash the Titanic’s final plunge would’ve been much more violent as water was flooding in faster than air could escape so the stern literally got torn apart by air blasting its way out through the hull and decks and stuff
My husband and I took a cruise on this ship for a Mediterranean cruise several years ago and I had heard of its sinking. It is sad to actually see this nice ship sinking. I hope no one was lost.
I turned 90 years old this year. We took other sea voyages on container ships to the south pacific, the Westcoast countries of S. America, and the Orient. They only took 10 passengers on each.
In what way? This ship took many hours to sink, the Lusitania went down in 18 minutes. Also this ship wasn’t secretly carrying munitions, and there was no warning in the newspaper the day before that it would be sunk.
@@boataxe4605 I think they mean the visual way that it sunk - Listing to starboard and down by the head, but yeah the ship didn't go vertical, it was more of a gentle slope when it went down.
It’s wild how much faster the ship starts to dive as soon as the funnel goes underwater. The book The Perfect Storm goes into detail about how downflooding is usually the death blow for a ship, and this seems like a perfect example.
The captain said: “I told everyone to leave - it doesn’t matter if I left first. When the order to abandon the ship is given, no one should stay, and no one cares if you leave first. If you want to stay on the ship, it’s your own problem”
“If you want to stay on the ship, it’s your own problem” Sorry, I didn’t know it was my fault that you’re crew took all of the lifeboats, with little thought for the actual passengers. I guess next time I should focus more on saving my own hide, rather than considering that actual lives are in jeopardy because you decided to chart a cruise in a body of water infamous for its freak weather.
+Shipster1912. For the winter 1986/87 Regent Holidays of Toronto chartered two Epirotiki Lines ships for Caribbean cruising, the mv Oceanos and the tss Atlas.
It's a miracle nobody died, no thanks to the captain and crew. The entertainment crew and South African coast guard are AMAZING.
the ship died
the captain and the crew abandoned ship it was the entertainers who saved everyone
captain didn’t do shit
his excuse was that because after calling the abandon ship, he could leave because it mean abandon ship for everyone
@@dexterw8353 Yeah, I know. I said "no thanks to the captain and crew."
The guitarist, Moss Hills, is a Legend! He and the entertainments manager saved nearly 200 people.
500 more like. The entirety of the ship's passengers were saved
@@blue_the_boy_kisser I hear Moss is actually a cruise director himself nowadays.
I can’t imagine what the entertainers felt like when they saw the bridge was empty. These guys are true heroes.
I would have been PISSED
@@Squicx nah they be like : ay yo where them crew go bruh
@@Squicx I would’ve been like YOU SON OF A B******S
"Tough audience"?
The orchestra members of the Titanic were looking down from Heaven with pride.
I think the musicians should get a HUGE reward for calling S.O.S
Yes, the Entertainers did a great job, not like this stupid goblin crew that didn't even tell the passengers that the ship is sinking.
@@Lxmer_nce Titanic means that her S.O.S is so hard to transfert so they should get a HUGE award
Omg rms titanic I’m so sorry that you sinked but hi
@@glihvis-gacha1823 no
R.M.S TITANIC YyYyYyYyYyeepppp
This is another of those incidents where the captain and crew abandoned ship without any attempt even to save the passengers, or even to warn them of danger. The passengers were left to discover for themselves that the ship was sinking, and it was the entertainment crew who organized the evacuation of the ship.
William S. That's another way of saying, that the entertainment crew were more seamanlike than the ship's regular crew...
William S. Captains a bitch
William S. iiii
William S. yeah... the captain was an idiot... and his crew were sheep, following their authority wherever he went
It's a fucking miracle that they were able to get everyone to safety no thanks to the crew.
What a shame. As a licensed Captain I am appalled at how many crew and worst of all Captains have abandoned vessel before passengers.
+Hoppit89 Nope, after Titanic people realized it's what got 1,517 people killed in a matter of 2 hours and 40 minutes
Actually on the Titanic it was more like first class first. A higher percentage of first class men survived than third class women and even children. Of course sailing with many more passengers than lifeboats didn't help either.
It was not in regulations at the time for sufficient lifeboats bc they could make trips between sinking ship and rescue ship. In the case of Titanic, no one came to help until 4 hours later.
Fred Read a true captain never leaves the ship before passengers
Ikr wasn't the Captain a Police Before well thats what I heard
The slow digestion of the most powerful force on Earth. The timeless, merciless, sea.
Your right..they say water is the most powerful force on the planet!!!
Water is the most powerful element
@@iamBlackGambit it is extremely powerful
@@smetupp05 yes it is my friend, been drinking beer all day and harvesting lobster in the Keys...nice to hear from a fellow Waterman.
But yeah...what's more destructive and necessary than the sea? She's a paradox. Gotta be a female ocean.
The fact that the ship held up until everybody was off is still amazing
Even more shocking since the crew left the ship without telling the passengers it was sinking.
@@crimsonknight7011 ... and the heroic Greek captain bravely directed operations from his hotel room in Durban. So I'm told.
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Credit to the old girl for holding out long enough for everyone to be evacuated safely, out of all the footage of sinking ships I’ve seen here was probably the most stately and peaceful, and well earned last dive
It's an amazing story! The cruise director, magician, and guitarist carried out the rescue mission after the captain & crew aborted the ship. (Cowards!). They helped the 900 passengers into remaining lifeboats, and some were airlifted by the South African navy, and some placed in small rafts. In the end, all passengers survived. Truly a miracle!
While I agree, there a few details that are slightly off and I wanted to inform you to help prevent the unintentional spread of misinformation. First, while the captain did attempt to abound on ship with the rest of the crew, he was dragged back on board after the entertainment crew found him trying to board a lifeboat. He was actually the first airlifted, where he was immediately berated for abandoning ship upon returning. Second, the number was closer to around 570, not 900.
Couple of other points: it's not too obvious, but they're a little over 3 miles offshore, and if you look carefully at the video there's no shortage of rescue vessels in the area. Plenty uncomfortable, especially with the wind and wave action, but it's not like they were in mid-Atlantic with practically no assistance. Or Lake Superior during a hardcore Arctic storm.
@@svenmorgenstern9506 all conditions for surviving were there..
@Warmessage Well I did say around
@@wazzu4488 The ship could only carry 500 people I thought?
I find the sight of a ship sinking is incredibly eerie
Was it cuz there was like no sound except the helicopter
Never to see the light of day again..
Funny enough it’s longer than the depth of the area where it sank 6:19
so did the people of Titanic.
Just came here from Bright Sun Films. Amazing how everyone survived.
If you watch this video backwards it’s an inspiring story of how a ship overcame adversity and rose from the depths of the Ocean to sail once again
lol
If you watch jaws backwards its a movie about a shark who spits out people until the beach opens.
"ayo get yo ass back here we need more ships for the fleet"
@@potato1907 "sorry sir i forgot, lemme just rise myself up rq"
And the passengers all frantically board this emerging ship by sea and by air, then patiently wait for their crew to arrive 😂
What’s fascinating is the similarity between Oceanos and Britannic during the final plunge. In Oceanos case, the ship was 502 ft long, and sank in waters roughly 300 ft deep. Around time stamp 6:08 , the bow hits bottom, and the ship slowly falls on its starboard side as it slips beneath the waves. Wish there was wreck footage showing the crushed bow section, however, I have yet to come across any.
I hear that the ocean currents are very strong in that particular area so it's very difficult to get good footage/photos of the wreck.
Is the bow hitting the bottom what caused all the…dirt? To come off of the deck?
@@foureyeddragon00 Someone else can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe it’s a mixture of dirt/dust/exhaust gases that are being forced out of the ship by the water flooding the lower levels
ahh another person who knows the story of titanic sister, love to see it
@@jonathanb.1215 I too noticed the similarities
Update : August 2021
Two passengers Neal Shaw and Mick O’Mahoney who helped get off people from the stricken ship have been given bravery awards by National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) of South Africa
Only 30 years after the event, but better late than never
Well done to both of them
She Was Still Standing Until Everyone Left The Ship, We Will Never Forget You Oceanos
I was living nearby in Transkei when this accident happened.
A member of the crew, Moss Hills was the hero of the day .. he made the original Mayday distress calls and then coordinated the rescue. His wife also assisted together with a few others.
The Captain and the technical crew had just abandoned the ship.
It was a miracle THAT Not a single person lost their life.
WELL DONE MOSS HILLS !!
What? The entertainment staff organized the SOS the entire crew and captain left.
Yep ! Check on Wikipedia or just Google Moss Hills.
He then had misfortune of his next ship being the Achille Lauro and he was aboard her when she burned and sank. I think he’s sticking to nightclubs now.
@@basil9973 Moss Hills is a part of the entertainment staff. He now serves as a cruise director instead.
@@johnarat9618 I neglected that entertainment staff is still crew
Oh my goodness, my family was on the Oceanos a day or two before it sank. We disembarked in East London before it carried on to Durban (and didn't make it).
Crikey
Did u tip the waiters on the boats ?
The bow was coming and going with every wave, struggling to stay afloat, slowly losing. But (at 5:04) once the water started getting into the funnel the ship's fight for bouyancy was over. It went fast after that.
You can see her give a lurch just a surge or two before the funnel goes under. She's starting to go really fast at that point, but yes, when the funnel goes under, she dives.
Its fascinating and sad to see a ship being swallowed by the sea. Like a hungry anaconda swollowing its prey whole.
Why it’s sad? Everyone was evacuated, my boy.
@@asasnat342 just all the work for it to go under and down into that deep blue abyss. Like the titanic or the britannic.
The size of the ocean doesn't really register, until you see it swallow the largest pieces of equipment that man has ever made... and still hungry
Yeah, just seeing the water slowly eating the ship. That thing was designed to not be eaten by the sea... but it was.
Not really as it's a better fate than being sent to the breakers yard.
its so sad, beautiful and somehow therapeutic watching big ships sinking at sea.
Yes in this sinking do you all notice as the ocean reaches the rim of the funnel, it's pouring into the engine rooms and the ship doomed
Once the water reaches the funnel, the ship is as good as sunk
Whenever you know that everyone survived I think it’s therapeutic
Its fortunate that no lives were lost here, but no thanks to the crew who buggered off and left the passengers to fend for themselves. The captain should have done jail time for that.
he was arrested as soon as he got to shore
Erik Theodorsen what a hero......
He did
Let me put it this way, should you be arrested because you abandoned ship before another human being?
Edit: stop liking this comment its fucking stupid
Dale Potter as a captain of a vessel you have the duty to protect and inform whomever steps on your fleet. And while you bring up the point of human beings, as human beings, shouldn’t we all be helping each other?
Your comment suggests we should all fend for ourselves. Yikes man. Hope I don’t run into you on a ship.
This was older disaster like Concordia where a chicken of the sea Capt abandoned ship leaving the musicians to coordinate the rescue
Ugh he didn't want to abandon the ship idiot? He refused too abandon
Mohammed Tofigh Capt of the Concordia? Um - I do not think so
This has nothing in common with Concordia, and this capten did NOT; I say again did NOT abandon his ship like the Concordia Italian one did...If you dont have more to add than shit so please keep quiet unstead,
Mohammed Tofigh Wikipedia says "eyewitness accounts reveal that many of the crew, including Captain Avranas, were already packed and ready to depart, seemingly unconcerned with the safety of the passengers.[3]" s no alarm or announcement was given that the ship was in trouble, several passengers went to the bridge to look for the captain but found it unmanned.Captain Yiannis Avranas and the crew were criticized by passengers for leaving hundreds behind with no one other than the ship's onboard entertainers to help them evacuate. Avranas claimed that he left the ship first to arrange for a rescue effort, and then supervised the rescue from a helicopter. He justified his actions saying that the "ship was in darkness and the batteries on the crew's walkie-talkies had died, meaning that he had no communications with his crew or with other rescue craft".[10] Avranas was quoted as saying "When I order abandon the ship, it doesn't matter what time I leave. Abandon is for everybody. If some people like to stay, they can stay."[11]
A Greek board of inquiry found Avranas and four officers negligent in their handling of the disaster.
Munizipalc Degrab I saw a long documentary on this incident; it started as an engine fire, the crew decided to mask this with an impromptu deck barbeque. Once it had been established they could not cope. The crew packed their suitcases and took to a lifeboat and sailed away leaving passengers to deal with the problem. A guitarist contacted the emergency services on the ships radio to raise the alarm. The captain later commented that it was his duty to save the crew. In many respects it is like the Concordia but in general it was a lot more selfish.
The second any ship moves the captain is responsible for every soul on board
And for every other boat nearby
Just like a truck driver like myself. Im responsible for my truck and trailer and cargo. And for helping all the other idiot drivers stay safe on the road no matter how much they piss me off. The old slang for a trucker captain of the ship
No who cares about the passengers i'm the captain of the ship only to get some bitches on my dick but if the ship is about to sink fuck im out it's what we in the business say: in case of emergency initiate the everyone for himself protocol.
Actually, before she even moves, we are responsible for the passengers from the moment that they step aboard.
I think it's so funny how humans invent these machines, make up the training for them, create titles like captain, invent rules and regulations...and then forget that humans are innately driven to save themselves in the face of danger. What is captain? Nothing just a made up word.
Now its a new home for many different types of fish
+Daniel Lion & so is the fam titanic & its seven sisters dumbass
+Daniel Lion & so is the fam titanic & its seven sisters dumbass
+Angel Monica Wow that's rude comment of yours. Before calling someone a dumbass you should be aware that there were only three ships of the Olympia class ships of the White Star Liners. The Olympia, The Titanic and The Brittanic. Only the Olympia survived except its been scrapped. The Titanic and the Brittanic are the only ones that sank. I don't know why you need to be so rude and ignorant all at the same time.
hhds113 um then try serch youtube for titanic's 6 sisters & wat eva
Angel Monica 6 sisters? You really haven't done your history have you? I'll say it again. In the White Star Line, Titanic was one of the THREE ships of the Olympian class liners. Won't you do your research.
As terrifying and deep as the sinking looks, the ship is actually longer than the depth where it lies on its side. The Oceanos was 153 m (502 ft) long and lies between 92 m (302 ft) and 97 m (318 ft). Looking at the video, it looks like the ship's bow must have hit the bottom straight down causing a temporary stop in the sinking before causing it to start leaning to starboard.
Just like britannic
It’s design looks a bit like the Andrea doria
I'm glad that everyone made it out alive.
No not everyone
@@laurenandrew4352 jwisajdazsysha
@@laurenandrew4352 u stupid get more educated Peppa Pig Fan
@@laurenandrew4352 Yes everyone. Despite the cowardice and incompetence of the captain and bridge crew, EVERYONE made it out alive.
This is......weirdly so freaking interesting and even cool to see knowing everyone made it out alive
Shout out to my boy Paul Wiley who was lowered down to the ship from a helicopter to rescue everyone on board with no lives lost!!!
Shiiiiiiiiiii
People like that are the best of the best.
Me, Britannic, Lusitania and Carpathia are gonna have a new friend❤
Only this time it’s not in the Atlantic
Yes.
Hol up, Titanic. are you forgetting about Olympic?
@@josephbruceismay6832 didnt sink
@@shrubsalot4356 Olympic was scrapped, imbecile.
Had a very pleasant cruise on Oceanos in 1980's out of Greece around eastern med. Quite a nice ship.
Бедный корабль, долго, он не хотел умирать. Красивый был
The ship got sunk, but the worst thing is.. the captain and the crew abandoned the ship and didnt help. Thats very bad! Big props to the entertaiment crew. They made people live. Good thing atleast everyone got saved.
It’s beautiful to watch in video, but terrifying to watch while physically on the boat.
No one was on the boat at this point
Tried it?
Beautiful? What a prick.
The water was so shallow at this position that bow of the ship hits bottom while the aft quarter of the ship is still above the waves. You can see it happen as the ship is sinking then just stops and stands there pivoting on the bow as the upper compartments slowly fill and then she slowly and reluctantly falls over onto her starboard side and vanishes from sight. And that is how divers found her, in shallow water on her starboard side
I remember seeing this on the news when I was very young and at the time I thought the objects sliding down the decks at 6:02 were people. It's relieving to finally know years later that nobody died in the sinking.
Props to the entertainers on board the ship and the South African Marine Corps for getting boots on the deck to evacuate passengers after the captain and senior crew fled the ship.
now that you mention it, I could see why some would think those objects were people.
Beside the horrifying story and amazing rescue by the brave entertainment staff, the added horror is that neither the captain nor any member of the crew was ever prosecuted or punished for the criminal negligence that could have cost hundreds of lives, and in fact, the captain was allowed to captain another ship until he retired!
yeah like the captain of the Costa Concordia...the captain and others on the crew left the sinking ship . he's in prison right now the captain . it's really great to hear the coast guard yelling at the captain to get back on the ship and save ppls lives.. coward. he said that he gave the order to abandon ship, and that meant anyone who wanted off the ship to go...
Wasn't he and the officers found guilty by the south African and Greek governments?
6:27 titanic final plunge position
that is false, titanic didnt go vertical while it made its final plunge. just because you saw it in the movie doesnt mean that is what it actually did
Stfu
@@projecttitanica9516 do you even know what vertical means.
Dubbi _io ir wrong the titanic dose go vert after spilitting and drug into a vertical by the bow
Dubbi _io Nah, that was my last position...
Small comment, when Simonstown (Cape town) saw the distress on the maritime radio, they informed Air Force command for assitance with Helicopters. The officer commanding instructed Cape Town to send 2 Heli's, Durban to send 2 Heli's and Pretoria to send 2 heli's. When he enquired an hour later, Cape Town Air base dispatched 5 Helicopters, Durban 3 Helicopters, and Pretoria 5 Helicopters. At that stage only 3 other helicopters were kept back as a standby. (remember this was the apartheid years, and the defence force was on standby 24 hrs a aday) Steven Moss, and his wife (on ship entertainers, now living in the UK) co ordinated the whole evacuation on ship, and the SADF airforce and Maritime command co ordinated from shore with the chopppers, Dakota's and Albatross aircraft. not a soul was lost, the most succesfull rescue of a Cruise liner to date. Hope it will not be needed now, as the new RSA do not fly enough to keep flight hours current a year. welcome to Africa
+James de Villiers I watched it sink from the wild coast, being woken by 5 pumas flying low overhead just after 6AM was a sight to see
I’m not religious but it is a miracle that everyone was ok. I just heard the story on the radio about Moss Hills the guitarist taking the lead to save and keep everyone calm.
a valve that pulled seawater in to cool machinery burst, there was a cutout in a pipe which led to the sewage tank that allowed water to bypass the watertight bulkheads and flow into the tank next door. When the tank flooded the water went through the drainage system and out every toilet, shower, and sink, pretty soon the weight of the water pulled the ship down
Oceanos was launched in 1952 as Jean Laborde for Messageries Maritimes. At the time of her sinking she was in a state of disrepair, with loose hull plates and a 10 cm gap under a "watertight" bulkhead.
It’s a little beautiful to watch the waves crash into the bow of a once grand vessel, and the water isn’t leaving either.
I believe the captain and many of the crew were some of the first people off the ship. The Cruise Director and some of the entertainment staff actually ended up being responsible for evacuating the passengers.
Makes my blood run cold. For all our brave science and supposed mastery of nature, there are still few more terrifying sights than the stern of a liner reared vertically before the final plunge. Thank God all souls got off!
I got this really uncomfortable feeling when I saw those propellers come up out of the water...
Me too. Fear of propellers.
Submechanophobia?
Mhm, anything ocean sends me running
Thalassophobia?
I prob have one of those. The idea of being around the bottom of a ship near the water and shear size of the propellers is absolute horror to me. Just seeing it is a problem
3:32 who else saw the red looking things and thought “oh shit people are still on there?” 😂🤣
Me...👍
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Dude that's not funny..
Truly inspirational for future captains like the one of the Costa Concordia.
This just makes me think how crazy it must’ve been for titanic :/
RIIIIIIGHT
Bit different really, the Titanic took over 2 hours to sink and did so in totally calm waters these two facts were the only blessings on that night.
no witty comments as this post isnt for my own enjoyment but clarification. my uncle was the captain of the 1st vessel on the scene , captain frikkie auret from south africa , they rescued most until the sa navy pitched
Lol nice try
I just looked it up - apparently most of the passengers were airlifted because the crew took off with mostly-empty lifeboats filled with the crew's personal belongings, leaving the passengers with not enough to escape. The rest were put in the remaining life boats. I can't find anything about non-coast guard rescue vessels. Can you tell me the name of the ship? Maybe that would make it easier to verify.
Because leaving people to die is now considered rescuing?
@@tacmfd ???
It’s seems like your lying because most passengers were airlifted.
Captain to passengers: Attention passengers This is your captain speaking :if look down at your feet you will notice the floor is flooding by water this means your ship is currently sinking now if you look to your left side you will see the endless blue sea if you look to your right you will also see a wonderful blue sea but if you look at the distance you will notice a very small orange lifeboat don't worry about it's me your captain and my ship crew getting rescued thank you for choosing Oceanos to spend your holidays have a pleasant cruise !
Damn we left the blue heart of the ocean diamond on board.
+hhds113 Shame. Legend says the pool of the ship is still filled with water though.
@@elasolezito
It was a miracle for the lobsters
@@elasolezito lmao
Shouldn’t have put the diamond in the coat.... and shouldn’t have put the COAT ON HER!
It's so creepy how the ship is just being swallowed by the sea and all you hear is the chopper
Legend has it that there is still water in the pool to this day
Update : April 2022
For UK folk, there was a recent podcast on the BBC, called 'Life Changing' episode 'Mayday' where the story is told by Moss Hills. Worth a listen.
The story of the sinking is wild, and the way the captain and crew behaved is pure cowardice. Imagining abandoning ship without sending a mayday and without assisting passengers to evacuate.
Looks like it stops dead at 6:38 when it hits bottom then slowly tips over. Water there is around 300 ft. deep and the ship is 500 ft. long.
The entertainment staff : I'm the captain now
I was on this ship in 1989.....two years before it sank......
what
RIP deckchairs... :'(
They(white people)be like:aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
@Joe mama what? White people? Dude are you trying to disrespect my own country!?!?
@@marioskertsiadis dude are you racist twords white peoples
Actually watched the TV programme "I Survived" which featured Lynne,a member of the staff who helped with the rescue,& was with 45 survivors in a leaking lifeboat with no emergency supplies! The cruiser had set out in a storm,and to make matters worse they were faced with white sharks!It's a miracle no lives were lost!Drivers lose their licence if they break certain traffic laws,so why on earth was the Captain allowed to pilot another ship!!??
Why it gotta be a white shark....i smell a little racism....reinstate choke holds! TRUMP 2020
@@shawnu8477 who gives a shit
@@shawnu8477 as in a great whit shark, known for its white fin…
Ship: *sinks*
The lobsters in the kitchen: *It’s free real estate*
Reminds me of the Andrea Doria. All that beauty and grace... gone... as though it never existed!
And... just as it has done for thousands of years... the sea rolls on, hiding her secrets in her dark depths.....
If you had gotten to tour the machinery spaces you wouldn’t have seen beauty and grace, you would have seen a criminally negligent lack of maintenance.
Near the end you can see what looks like doors being blown out of their frames and from the force of escaping air and being shot over the stern.
Emocionante ver um navio de qualquer porte começando à afundar sem chance de socorrer a nave mas é triste ao mesmo tempo e nada poder fazer mas é uma casa a mais na vida marinha.
Cuando sucedió esto?
Pior que isso eu sinto quanto vejo algum navio afundando,especialmente o britannic que a gente ouça que o capitão fez de tudo pra tentar encalhar o navio mas nao obtendo sucesso. A parte mais emocionante são os passageiros sendo salvos,pois no meio de tanta morte que esteja envolvida...os que sobreviveram devem ser pelo milagre...um ser nao deixando elas morrerem de portemia ou por nao saber nadar mesmo
It's a miracle that no one died in this disaster.
Benjamin Ditch it took 15 hours to sink
The ship had water flood in through a part of machinery and the water flowed through the pipes and up out of sinks and bathtubs and such. Eventually enough water had flooded the decks to cause the ship to list over and eventually sink. This is just the las few mins. The ship actually took a long time to get to this point and everybody made it off even tho a lot of the crew left before anybody knew what was going on. There was no PA or alarm. The main crew just left.
Someone left the water on oops
there was a documentary on TV they were surprised at how good condition the ship was.
It even had water left in the swimming pool!
they all survived, thanks to the courage of two men.
And two women, Moss Hill’s wife and the cruise director.
The crews on the tugs and cargo ships watching this would no doubt have felt terrible knowing that they were seeing another ship die. At least everyone got off the Oceanos before she went down.
".. until finally she's got her whole ass sticking up in the air, and that's a big ass, we're talking 20, 30 thousand tons...."
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"Thank you for that fine, forensic analysis Mr. Bodine."
Very spectacular video and very impressive to see the ship sinking slowly, particularly the last two minutes, when the see enter into the funnel and quickly the ship disappear into the ocean.
I'll never let go Jack
No one died btw
UwU
Maybe it's a fitting end that she went into the sea. If she'd been able to hold on longer they probably would've floated, towed, and scrapped her, and then nothing of her would remain. At least now she'll stay a tangible ghost of the sea as well as a wonderful story. Way to go down with honours, _Oceanos._
She also held on long enough for all passengers to get evacuated
Thank God it was empty when it was plunging down, unlike many other shipwrecks. The story behind this was wild.
Farewell noble vessel. It has been some time since you left the surface world. May your hallways, ballrooms, and guest quarters be filled with life once more, with the residents of the sea. May others celebrate living within your walls again.
Imagine how amazing it would have been to see the Titanic sinkage. If only we had the same technology back then
7 year late but If they had the tech back then, so many lives would have been saved.
beauanddustinunleash the Titanic’s final plunge would’ve been much more violent as water was flooding in faster than air could escape so the stern literally got torn apart by air blasting its way out through the hull and decks and stuff
Dale Potter he means that’s what did happen
Femme Funtime You are right, but that wouldn’t have been able to be seen as it’s most commonly accepted the stern imploded on the way to the sea floor
beauanddustinunleash In the fog and in the dead of the night? I don’t think we would have seen much either (but I’m also curious about it).
My husband and I took a cruise on this ship for a Mediterranean cruise several years ago and I had heard of its sinking. It is sad to actually see this nice ship sinking. I hope no one was lost.
Curious as to how you took a trip on this ship several years ago when it actually sank in 1991.🤷♂️
@@S-Ltd1000 We took the trip in the 1980's.
I turned 90 years old this year. We took other sea voyages on container ships to the south pacific, the Westcoast countries of S. America, and the Orient. They only took 10 passengers on each.
Nobody:
The helicopter at 2:21: HEY NICE PROPELLOR!
5:32 It looks just like in the movie Titanic. It's so similar, it's eerie.
6:05 Titanic mode activated
Yes! I thought the very same thing. So eerie to see the stern go vertical just like Titanic did
Imagine standing on that thing in the middle of the night with no lights and one to help you. Exact same kind of sinking.
It's nice to know the captain and crew were safely ashore, co-ordinating rescue efforts ... leaving everyone else aboard to fend for themselves.
Somewhat matches a description of the Lusitania sinking I read
In what way? This ship took many hours to sink, the Lusitania went down in 18 minutes. Also this ship wasn’t secretly carrying munitions, and there was no warning in the newspaper the day before that it would be sunk.
@@boataxe4605 I think they mean the visual way that it sunk - Listing to starboard and down by the head, but yeah the ship didn't go vertical, it was more of a gentle slope when it went down.
It's a MIRACLE that no one died here.
amazes me that in this day and age a ship this size can still sink like the Titanic a hundred years ago
The ocean is just as wet as it was in 1912.
No ship is unsinkable. Even if it has advanced safety features, Or a reinforced hull, There is no such thing as an unsinkable ship. Its impossible.
🤭😥 очень печально! Как буто живым человеком прощаешься. 🚢⚓️⛴
It’s wild how much faster the ship starts to dive as soon as the funnel goes underwater. The book The Perfect Storm goes into detail about how downflooding is usually the death blow for a ship, and this seems like a perfect example.
Poseidón es caprichoso y cuando ve un barco que le gusta sé lo queda.
The captain said: “I told everyone to leave - it doesn’t matter if I left first. When the order to abandon the ship is given, no one should stay, and no one cares if you leave first. If you want to stay on the ship, it’s your own problem”
“If you want to stay on the ship, it’s your own problem”
Sorry, I didn’t know it was my fault that you’re crew took all of the lifeboats, with little thought for the actual passengers. I guess next time I should focus more on saving my own hide, rather than considering that actual lives are in jeopardy because you decided to chart a cruise in a body of water infamous for its freak weather.
Wtf
That statement of the captain is not acceptable.
I hope Jack and Rose got off in time!
All 571 persons on board were saved.
(Er - if that is what you meant.)
:)
Jack Sainthill
It's a reference to the Titanic movie.
LittleLulubee
How depressing. I had been hoping that the comment might have been witty. Thanks anyway.
James Mcervel That comment mixed with watching this video made me laugh so much. Usually Titanic makes me cry lol.
James Mcervel Come back come back
I remember this ship in Rhodes port,from Epirotiki Lines..I was a child...
What a tragedy, at least there was no lives lost. I was on the ship on a Caribbean cruise from March 21 to 28 in 1987, nice ship and good times.
+rwhmoto She never went to the Caribbean, though.
+Shipster1912. For the winter 1986/87 Regent Holidays of Toronto chartered two Epirotiki Lines ships for Caribbean cruising, the mv Oceanos and the tss Atlas.
+rwhmoto You're correct, my apologies.
She put up a pretty good fight,it seems!
Be crazy to see an underwater view of this and the thing plummeting down
YES. The idea of this is truly horrifying
She was a beautiful ship...
Nobody died in that incident but it is kind of depressing to see such a beautiful ship lost in the ocean
Always a sad moment for me when a huge ship like that succumbs to the ocean,its like the water is claiming back what's rightfully theirs....😞
Unbelievable as it is ..... cccthe swimming pool is still full up !!!!
AMAZING Footage
It is so strange. I never knew how much a sinking ship sounds like a helicopter. Wow!
Bruh they fly in helicopter and filming