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Events at Sea by Louis Cruises


The events listed have been reported in the public domain or to cruisejunkie by passengers or crew members onboard.  The list is by no means comprehensive.  For that reason it is necessary to be cautious in drawing conclusions from the potentially limited data.  Keep in mind that some companies may be more transparent than others about things that go wrong; conversely, some companies may be better at concealing events and thereby project an appearance that is inaccurate.  With that said, the following list is still interesting, as are the patterns seen viewed separately by ship.




dd/mm/yy
Ship
2008
Incident
8.5.08
Aquamarine
The ship is heading to the Greek island of Milos for an emergency inspection after its hull was damaged. The ship with 1200 people onboard suffered a 5-foot (1.5-meter) gash above the water line. The Associated Press reports the ship "scraped against a pier" as it was leaving Iraklion (Crete).
Collision with pier --
Holed hull

dd/mm/yy
Ship
2007
Incident
2.6.07
Serende
The ship was slightly damaged when it grazed the pier while docking at the Greek island of Tinos.  The collision caused a small hole on the left side of the ship's bow above the water line.  It was fixed and the ship wason its way in thenext hour.
Collision
19.5.07
Oceanic II

The ship "bumped" MSC's Rhapsody in Rhodes due to 9 force winds. They had been berthed all morning, and in the late afternoon the winds were so strong that the mooring rope from the Oceanic snapped and the ship hit the Rhapsody's stern causing damage to the deck rail and flag pole.
Bump (Fender Bender)
14.5.07
Orient Queen An Indonesian sailor was killed and another crew member was seriously injured in an accident Monday at the island of Mykonos.  The man was killed after a mooring line snapped, as the Greek-flagged ship was preparing berth at the island -- it was extremely windy, which undoubtedly contributed to causing the tragedy.  A second Indonesian sailor was hospitalized in serious condition. Crew Member killed & injured
2.5.07
Sea Diamond The English-language Greek newspaper Ekathimerini reports that the government has yet to decide how it will remonve more than 400 tons of fuel still in the shipwreck 120 metres below the sea.  Some of the fuel has already started to leak, prompting a cleanup of Snatorini's beaches.  Experts fear that half the fuel oil may have already seeped from the ship; the remaining fuel could still create a serious problem for the marine environment.
Environmental
5.4.07
Sea Diamond The ship hit a reef in a lagoon a half mile from shore near the main port of Santorini.  It was reported to be taking on water and listed 12 degrees but was stabilized when watertight doors were stabilized.  All 1153 passengers and all but 20 of 391 were evacuated from the shi, without injury.  Sister ship Perla is en route to Santorini to collect Sea Diamond’s passengers.  UPDATE APRIL 6:  It is reported that the ship sunk in the early morning hours and that two French passengers — a 45 year-old man and his 16-year-old daughterare missing.  NOTE:  An oil spoil, with a diameter of 100 meters was detected in the region of the sunken Sea Diamond ship in the Aegean Sea, the Greek TV channel NET reported.  Greek authorities indicated the ship had as much as 100 tons of oil  The Greek Government, fearing a serious blow to Santorini's tourist economy from oil pollution (the ship contained more than 400 tons of fuel), has announced it will sue the ship's owner and ensure it takes full responsibility for clean up operations.  FROM A PASSENGER:  Please update your information on the sinking of the Sea Diamond. I was on the ship. The ship listed at least 30 degrees, it was never stablized, despite the closing of the watertight doors, and what's worse, the lifeboats did not work and there were no life jackets at the muster stations. There was also never an emergency signal given, nor a call to abandon ship. The ship was also then towed to deeper waters and allowed to sink with all of our belongings on board.
Grounded
Evacuated
Sank

Environmental
dd/mm/yy
Ship
2006
Incident
31.8.06
Ivory
Twenty-seven passengers, ten of them children, came down with diarrhea, fever and vomiting yesterday on a cruise to the Greek islands.  The company says the illness is from a virus (i.e., norovirus) and disputed newspapers which said the illness was from food poisoning. Illness
16.6.06
Sea Diamond
More than 1000 passengers were safely evacuated following a bomb threat that proved to be a hoax.  The vessel's departure from Piraeus on a three-day cruise of the Aegean Islands was delayed.
Bomb threat
6.5.06
Calypso
A "Mayday" was sent out saying the 39-year-old ship had ship was on fire, 15 miles off Beachy Head on UK coast.  The fire broke out in the early hours in the starboard engine -- it was extinguished by 6AM.  Passengers (462) and crew  (246) were at muster stations in the lifeboats, but an evacuation was not necessary.  The ship was towed to Southampton and passengers disembarked.
Fire