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Cruise Ship Sinking
The "Oceanos" was a Greek cruise liner with hundreds of South African and Foreign holiday makers aboard making her way in a northerly direction off the Transkie coast. On 04 August 1991 while she fought high seas along South Africa's eastern seaboard she took in water through an open apature in her hull listing badly. The Captain and crew fearing the worst abandoned the ship leaving the passengers to their own fate. However the South African Air force, flying air force Pumas, rescued all the passengers despite high winds and the prevailing treacherous conditions.
A newspaper clipping showing the final moments of the "Oceanos" Downloaded from the website www.oceanossinking.blogspot.com
Saved from certain death these survivors aboard a SAAF Puma sigh relief. Downloaded from the website www.oceanossinking.blogspot.com
The SAAF crew which took part in the rescue operation. Downloaded from the website www.oceanossinking.blogspot.com
The captain is always the last to abandon ship, or go down with her, not in the case of the "Oceanos" though. In this case the "captain" and crew were the first to abandon the Oceanos! However bits of history keep being washed to shore, and one such case is a fiberglass life boat which the sea spewed forth in one of its more violent moments, at Skoenmakerskop. This is a few KM's north to where the Sacramento went down.
