Diamond Cruise Ship Sinking

Posted April 10 2007.

Diamond cruise ship sinking. Flashback in maritime History - Sea Diamond sinking at Santorini 5 April 2007. The cruise ship Sea Diamond sank in April 2007 off the Greek tourist spot. 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.

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. Flashback in maritime History. After chartering two replacement ships for the Diamond - the 1966-built 28891 ton 790-passenger Oceanic II ex-Sea Princess Victoria and Mona Lisa from April 30 through May 28 and the 884-passenger Ruby ex-Ocean Countess both sailing three- and four-day cruises from Piraeus to the Greek Islands and Turkey - the line will be replacing the Diamond for the.

Louis Hellenic Cruises Sea Diamond carrying about 1600 passengers and crew hit rocks off Santorinis cliffs in April 2007 and sank two hours later. The vessel has taken a. The Diamond Princess is a British-registered luxury cruise ship that is operated by Princess Cruises a holiday company based in the United States and BermudaIn February 2020 during a cruise of the Western Pacific cases of COVID-19 were detected onboard.

More Revealed in Sea Diamond Sinking November 18 2008 On Nov. 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. Two French cruise passengers drown.

All onboard were safely evacuated except a French man Jean Christophe. 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. All onboard were safely evacuated except a French man Jean Christophe.

However there is confusion about what happened in the hours following the collision. For 13 years the Greek government has failed to. The current Greek government is now trying to decide whether to.