MS Sea Diamond is a cruise ship operated by Louis Hellenic Cruise Lines. He was built in 1984 by Valmet, Finland for Birka Line as Birka's . The ship sank on 5 April 2007, after ran aground near the Greek island of Santorini earlier. day, leaving two passengers missing and allegedly killed.
Video MS Sea Diamond
Histori
Originally named Birka Princess, the ship was built by Finnish state-owned Valmet at their Vuosaari shipyard in Helsinki at a cost of 350 million Finnish markka (EUR58.9 million). He was sent in 1986 and operated for the Birka Line in the Baltic Sea cruise market, sailing on a 24-hour cruise ship between Stockholm in Sweden and the ÃÆ'... land islands in Finland. Between 1990 and 2003 he also made longer cruises around the Baltic Sea during the summer.
Between 1992 and 2002, the ship's exterior was used to describe the fictional vessel MS Freja in the Swedish TV soap opera Rederiet .
When built, it has a small car deck, with space for 80 passenger cars and a road on the left side behind. Like most cruises on the Baltic Sea, he was built for ice class 1A.
In 1999, he was extensively refined at Lloyd Werft in Germany at a cost of approximately US $ 26 million. The front suprastructure is extended and streamlined and 62 new passenger cabins added, including a new cabin deck over the bridge. In October 2004, when the new MS Birka Paradise was sent, Birka Princess began making two night cruises from Stockholm to Turku, Helsinki and Tallinn, as well as one weekly 24-cruise from Stockholm to Mariehamn. The new trip proved largely unsuccessful, and on January 2, 2006, the ship was put on Mariehamn and put up for sale.
In February 2006 he was sold to Louis Cruise Lines based in Cyprus for US $ 35 million (EUR29.4 million). When built, the ship only has an indoor pool in the sauna section on the 2nd deck on the bow of the ship. A new outdoor swimming pool is installed and sunbathing areas are on the rise in Turku Repair Yard, Naantali. He entered service in the Mediterranean Sea as the second former Birka Line vessel in the Louis Cruise Lines fleet, after MS Princesa Marissa , former MS Prinsessan /Finnhansa . After the sale he was registered in Valletta, Malta. He changed the flag in late 2006. By the time he drowned he was owned by Elona Maritime Ltd., a company based in Malta, but registered in Piraeus, Greece.
The artwork on the ship includes two reliefs by ceramic artist ÃÆ'â € | sa Hellman.
Maps MS Sea Diamond
Sinking
On 5 April 2007, at around 16:00 EEST (13:00 UTC) ship ran aground on a well-marked volcanic reef east of Nea Kameni, inside the Greek Santorini island caldera, began to fetch water, and Registered up to 12 degrees to right before the waterproof door is reported to be closed (a report later denied when the accident was checked). The 1,195 passengers, mostly Americans and 60 Canadians, were initially all reportedly safely evacuated in three and a half hours, with four injuries. Several passengers, including a group of 77 students from Paisley Magnet School in North Carolina, were evacuated from the driveway past the used car deck to the boat, but several passengers had to descend from the rope ladder from the higher deck. The ship was pulled from the rocks, and the list was stable. Later, it was reported that two French passengers were missing.
The amount of water brought to the ship caused the ship to sink shortly before 7:00 on April 6, 2007, just a few hundred meters from the shore. The video footage shows that, towards the end, the vessel is completely upside down before settling to the bottom of the sea. It was later reported that the end of the round arc was only 62 meters (203 feet) below sea level, but the stern was in water up to 180 meters (590 feet) deep. It is feared that the wreck will glide deeper and sink into the volcanic caldera of the sinking islands. It has been speculated that the deep and almost vertical beach of the caldera resembling a bathtub makes it impossible to slaughter the ship and save it from total loss.
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Two French citizens, Jean Christophe Allain, 45, and his daughter Maud, 16, were declared missing. Allain's wife said that his cabin was filled with water when the ship hit a rock and he almost ran away. She was not sure if her husband and daughter made it out because it happened so suddenly. His son was on the deck at the time and evacuated safely. The family accommodated in a cabin 2014 the standard outdoor cabin on the right side of the boat on deck 2, the lowest deck passengers.
The diver checks shipwrecks on April 6 to collect information on the current ship's position and search for missing passengers. Underwater search in this cabin did not find anything. Divers continued searching on April 10, but nothing was reported. Later that same day, the local governors apologized to the French families for their missing relatives. The black box containing recorded conversations before the accident was discovered on April 15, while the bodies of the two missing persons were never found.
Investigation
On April 7, Greek authorities announced that they picked up the captain and five other officers with negligence. State television reported they were accused of causing the shipwreck due to negligence, violating international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment. Additional charges may be made depending on the fate of the two missing passengers. The six were released until further notice but if proven they could face a five-year prison sentence.
On April 13, 2007, it was reported that investigators using remote-controlled submarines found ship recorders (VDR). In the struggle to protect the data, they secure it in a special sterilized dumpster and the authorities will transfer it to the United States to disclose the stored data, the only action VDR producers can make. Greece's Ministry of Marine Traders said the recorder could reveal details of sinking of ships that could be used in prosecution of crew members.
DNV, one of the world's leading classification agencies, declared in their press release that "At the time of the accident, DNV issued a class certificate, safety management certificate and ship safety certificate." The Sea Diamond has no late surveys and no class conditions. For Sea Diamond has issued a Class certificate, its sluice should be fully operational.
Investigations carried out by the defense team of Master of the Vessel and Louis Cruise Lines, after the lawsuit has been filed against them, have included a new hydrographic survey of the accident area in Santorini. The survey was conducted by Akti Engineering, and found a mismatch between the actual mapping of the marine territory and the official charts used by Sea Diamond (and all other ships) at the time of the accident. Detailed surveys claim that corals, the Diamond Sea struck, were actually lying at 131 meters (429 feet) from the shore and not at a distance of 57 meters (187 feet) due to a missed mark on the nautical chart. The official chart also shows the water depth in the impact area varies from 18-22 meters, while the latest survey shows that only 5 meters.
Findings obtained by Akti Engineering have been forwarded to the Hellenic Hydrographic Office of the Hellenic Navy and other responsible authorities, with the aim that necessary changes to maritime maps should be drawn up and similar accidents should be prevented. According to sources of branch records, Hellenic Hydrographic Office initially rejected the new mapping, but further studies confirmed the findings of Akti.
A Greek scuba diver collecting evidence for a shipwriting maritime investigation Sea Diamond died in October 2007 due to decompression after the disease rose too quickly.
Aftermath
To avoid the oil spill, plans were made to recover approximately 450 tonnes (496 tonnes short) of fuel from the ship's tank. On September 20, 2007, fuel began to leak into other parts of the ship, but had not yet entered the surrounding environment. In June 2009, fuel was pumped out of the wreck. On May 14, 2007, it was announced that Louis Cruise Lines had purchased M/S Silja Opera (renamed it M/S Cristal ) to replace Sea Diamond
On June 19, 2007, the owner, operator and captain of the Sea Diamond shipping vessel was fined EUR1.17 million for causing marine pollution.
On August 21, 2007, a lawsuit was filed in US federal court on behalf of a passenger who was on board when he sank.
After six years in court, the Sea Diamond captain and an insurance company employee were each given 12 and 8 years in prison. The Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia (now dead) speculates there is no actual prison time to be served.
Raising
After drowning there were many requests from the inhabitants of Santorini to keep the wreck removed and moved. Further questions were asked but never answered why ships were moved to deeper waters to be left sinking in the first place. In May 2011, the Greek government claimed that removing Sea Diamond would be "too expensive" and said that the 150-million-euro fee to raise the vessel should be the responsibility of insurance companies and ship-owned companies. The latter two have no plans to raise the vessel, however, and nothing will be resolved.
In October 2017, the Merchant Marine Ministry of Greece announced the wreckage would be raised, out of environmental and navigational issues.
Images from Birka Princess
The image of the Birka Princess was taken one week after its maiden voyage in April 1986
See also
- List of disasters ship and ferry
- List of shipwrecks
- Costa Concordia , a down-to-earth Italian cruise ship in January 2012, killing at least 32 people
- SS Heraklion , a Greek car ferry that overturned and drowned in the Aegean Sea in 1966.
- Mikhail Lermontov , a Soviet cruise ship that ran aground on well-mapped rocks and then drowned in Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, in 1986 in a similar state to the Sea Diamond > i>.
- MS Express Samina , a Greek car ferry that crashed into a pair of rocky and submerged islands near the island of Cyclades Paros in 2000.
References
External links
- Sea Diamond cruises
- Cruise Liner Sunk in Santorini (in Greek)
- Ship Profile
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- ?? ??????? ??? MS Sea Diamond - MARINEWS (in Greek)
Amateur videos and photos
- Videos by members of the student group
- Scenery from the island: April 5, 2007 evacuation, 6 April 2007 sank
- Images taken by a passenger during evacuation
- An amateur photo before the event
- Two short video clips from Birka Princess
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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