Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. } A subsequent coroner's report revealed alcohol and antidepressants in his system at the time of his death. The wind at the time was 8 on the Beaufort scale. The captain of the Greek ferry Express Samina has admitted he was asleep just before his ship hit rocks off the island of Paros last Tuesday and sank, killing more than 70 people. By 22:25, the list had increased to fourteen degrees and water began to enter the ship through the six-metre gash. In a barely audible whisper he confessed he was not on the bridge. A judicial investigation has yet to come to any conclusion on the reasons for the disaster, although human error was initially cited as the chief cause. 'false' : 'true'; vars.article.wallVisible = ! The wind at the time was 8 Beaufort. const flipPayJsUrl = 'https://cdn.flip-pay.com/clients/inm/flip-pay.js'; premium_content: false, console.log('observer.observe failed:', e); MS Express Samina (Greek: ) was a French-built RoPax ferry that struck the charted Portes Islets rocks in the Bay of Parikia off the coast of Paros island in the central Aegean Sea on 26 September 2000. Two miles from its destination, the vessel struck a rocky islet and sank. The cause of the accident was crew negligence, for which several members were found criminally liable. The ship sank close to the islets at 23:02, resulting in the deaths of 80 people from a total of 533 on board. Signup for our newsletter to get notified about our next ride. Three crew members were sentenced to between 15 months and eight years and nine months for a series of misdemeanours that included abandoning ship without the captains permission. Seven crew members and company officials were jailed for up to 19 years today for their roles in a ferry disaster that involved many Britons and killed 80 people near the holiday island of Paros.. [11] He had been charged with criminal negligence in conjunction with this ferry disaster, and had been the focus of much media attention. [8], As a result of the sinking, ferries were retired after 30years instead of 35, under Greece's new laws precipitated by the disaster. if (cookieValue) { const vars = JSON.parse('{"attributes":{"inmproduct":"amp","virtualview":"false"},"category":{"pageType":"Article","primaryCategory":"World News","regionals":"","sectionId":"353","subCategory1":"n\/a","subCategory2":"n\/a","subCategory3":"n\/a","subCategory4":"n\/a"},"page":{"pageName":"In:World News:Captain `was sleeping\u0027 as Greek ferry struck rocks","pageTitle":"Captain `was sleeping\u0027 as Greek ferry struck rocks","publication":"Independent.ie"},"user":{"gigyaID":"","subscriptionStatus":"","subscriptionStartDate":"","subscriptionFinishDate":"","userID":""},"article":{"articleID":"26110517","articleType":"News","articleLayout":"standard","author":"By DANIEL McGRORY","createdAt":"2007-05-10 10:31:41","modifiedAt":"2007-05-10 10:31:41","publishedAt":"2000-09-29 23:11:00","wallType":"none","wallVisible":"false","relatedContent":{"gallery":0,"news":0,"photos":0,"soundcloud":0,"videos":0},"source":"","tags":"","topics":""}}' || '{}'); The City of Seattle honoured 26-year old Heidi Hart and 32-year old Christine Shannon, two American passengers, for heroism during the disaster. These laws were eventually relaxed due to the aging Greek fleet, but ships over 30years old must comply with strict safety standards, and regular inspections are carried out by authorities. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= The accident occurred during a nationally televised European Champions League match between a Greek and a German soccer club. I talked to him about soccer and told him stories," Mr Alexandros Georgiadis (19) told Greek television. MS Express Samina ( Greek: ) was a French-built RoPax ferry that struck the charted Portes Islets rocks in the Bay of Parikia off the coast of Paros island in the central Aegean Sea on 26 September 2000. Since the Paros crash survivors, relatives and crew have filed compensation suits against MFD. Subsequent inves. The rocks tore a six-meter-long and one-meter-wide hole above the water line. Other bodies were found floating in a remote cove on Paros.There were fears the death toll could rise as rescue crews are unsure of the exact number of people aboard the ferry, which sank in rough seas just two miles off the coast after crashing into rocky islets marked with a light beacon.Divers had for two days been hampered by gale force winds that prevented their descent on the 4,407-ton ferry. Bollywood movies from India which feature as Hindi films are mostly made in the Hindustani language[1][2][3] and similarly . Divers, who. First officer Tassos Psychoyios was sentenced to 19 years, while Captain Vassilis Giannakis received a 16-year sentence. The ship was built as MS Corse in 1966 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France[1] for Compagnie Gnrale Transatlantique, along with her sister ship MS Comte De Nice. vars.article.wallVisible = 'false'; She sailed from France for the last time in 1982, as she was sold to a Greek company, Stability Maritime, to operate their ItalyGreeceIsrael route under her new name MS Golden Vergina. Witnesses had placed. The cause of the accident was crew negligence, for which several members were found criminally liable. }; Nature de l'lment: navire; Lieu: Grce; Fabricant: Chantiers de l'Atlantique; Numro de chantier: F23; Port d'attache: Le Pire . Even with autopilot on, standard practice calls for one crew member (officer) to be on the bridge. His employers said he would not sail for them until after his trial, which was not expected to begin for at least 18 months. script.src = flipPayJsUrl; The crew had placed the ship onautopilot and there were no crew members on Bridge watch. The water spread beyond the engine room, and the operators could not remotely shut the doors due to a lack of electrical power. When one of the first ships to receive Titanic 's distress call, SS Frankfurt, responded late to Titanic 's CQD call, Marconi assistant Bride was tense enough to call the Frankurt's operator . Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. } All the doors on the starboard side are said to be sealed tight. The master of the Express Samina, Vassilis Yiannakis, and three of his crew have appeared in a court on the island of Syros on charges including murder.Yiannaki. if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { // Check window.dataLayer object or create. vars.article.wallVisible = ! "When the. The company also faces criminal charges for "exposing passengers to danger". He and three other crew members, including Vasilis Yiannakis, the captain, will be charged in court tomorrow. Pandelis Sfinias, 62, jumped from his sixth-floor office in the port of Piraeus, apparently unable to live with the knowledge that the business he created, Minoan Flying Dolphins, was being blamed for one of Greece's worst sea disasters. On 29 November 2000, Pandelis Sfinias ( ) the manager of the company Minoan Flying Dolphins, committed suicide by jumping from his sixth-floor office window. Title: The Invisible Plane. return 'premium-plus'; What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? A preliminary inquiry indicated that Vassilis Yannakis, the captain, was not on his bridge, Greek media reported. window.IMP.config = flipPayConfig; On 29 November 2000, Pandelis Sfinias ( ) the manager of the company Minoan Flying Dolphins, committed suicide by jumping from his sixth-floor office window. } Police said he died instantly. Mr Sfinias had been due to testify. RM G54R65 - A man walks out of The Port Authority building on the Greek island of Paros, where Vassilis Yiannakisits, the captain of sunk ferry Express Samina is allegedy being held. A crew member discovered the problem and tried to steer the ship to port, but this action occurred too late and at 22:12 local time, the ship struck the east face of the taller Portes pinnacle. Two Canadians were among. if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { Guidelines for the Control of Drug and Alcohol Onboard Ships, Flashback in maritime history: MS Estonia sinking on 28 September 1994 claiming 852 lives, SWOT analysis on low and zero-emission fuels in the maritime sector, Maritime Compliance: Restrictions for discharging washwater from Scrubbers (update Feb 2023). window.showSubscriberElements) { } First officer Tassos Psychoyios was sentenced to 19years, while Captain Vassilis Giannakis received a 16-year sentence. With Jonathan Aris, Sarah Manninen, Michle Tredger, Danielle Bourgon. Yannakis had told the court he was in his cabin at the time. The disasters of MV Sewol (Korea, 2014) and MS Express Samina (2000) were basically due to the above explained theory. The capacity of the ship was normally 44 crew and 536 passengers, less than a third of the total recorded deaths. The disaster was featured in "Collision Course", a Season 3 (2005) Crash Scene Investigation episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday[8] as well as the third episode of the first season of I Survived. Last edited on 12 February 2023, at 00:43, "Time Machine: Express Samina, 15 years since tragedy that left 81 dead (in Greek)", "Greek ferry captain arrested as death toll hits 62", "Investigation Into The Sinking Of The RO-RO Passenger Ferry Express Samina", "British women escaped, only to be shipwrecked again minutes later", The rough guide to the Greek islands 5th Edition, Adriatic and Aegean ferries F/B GOLDEN VERGINA, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MS_Express_Samina&oldid=1138854741, 19691976: Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne, 19661969: Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 00:43. const getSubscriptionStatus = function (purchase) { The court found that the 34-year-old vessel had been seaworthy, but that safety procedures on the roll-on, roll-off ferry had been neglected. The crew had deployed the fin stabilizers system to decrease the motions in bad weather; normally both stabilizer fins would deploy, but in this case the port stabilizer fin failed to extend, causing the ship to drift and therefore not travel in a straight line. Everyone was watching the game, German survivor Christa Liczbinksi, 37, told Associated Press on Paros. } return { The Express Samina, carrying more than 500 passengers and crew, crashed inexplicably into a well-charted outcrop three miles from Paros on the night of September 26. Some of the seamen rejected the charges, saying they had stayed behind to help passengers and pointing out that at least three of their own were identified among the dead. subscriptionStartDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', The water spread beyond the engine room, and the operators could not remotely shut the doors due to a lack of electrical power. return cookieData; Winds also kept fishing boats and other vessels from joining the rescue effort, which helped tourists and 365 Greek passengers to safety. Passengers aboard the triple-decker ferry, the Express Samina, included Greek commuters and late-season tourists from at least eight countries. Save up to 70% off with image packs His latest claim is that he was asleep as he had not been feeling well. {"gigya.api.key":"4_CO8231Ix1RbYi2EmMbsrlw","gigya.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.mobile.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.authFlow.redirect":"true","gigya.check.enabled":"true","gigya.check.host":"gigya-check.independent.ie","competitions.submit.endpoint":"https://competitions-api.independent.ie/entries","competitions.api.key":"0b15feaa-62b2-45a2-8244-723a9e80748e","subscriptionwall.cookie-domain":".independent.ie","subscriptionwall.metered.missing.fields":"data.occupation,data.phone,data.salutation,data.yearofbirth,profile.firstName,profile.lastName","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.home-delivery":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium-plus":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium-plus/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/","kaching.enabled":"true","outbrain.kaching.enabled":"true","quantcast.enabled":"false","didomi.enabled":"true","newsletter.subscribe_url":"https://member.independent.ie/quicksubscribe/IN:Daily/subscribe","social-embed-consent-wall.enabled":"true","homepage.regional.sections.mapping":"Cork:regionals/corkman/:corkman,Dublin:regionals/dublin/:dublin,Kerry:regionals/kerryman/:kerryman,Louth:regionals/louth/:louth,Sligo:regionals/sligochampion/:sligochampion,Wexford:regionals/wexford/:wexford,Wicklow:regionals/wicklow/:wicklow","active_cmp":"didomi"} {"url":"https://shared.mediahuis.be/ka-ching/independent/ka-ching.umd.js?20210830","adunit":"m.independent.ie/World_News/Home","targeting":{"art_id":"26110517","article_id":"26110517","kw":["Captain","was","sleeping","as","Greek","ferry","struck","rocks"],"gs_channels":["gs_notprocessed"],"article_type":"standard"},"platform":"MOB","pageType":"Article","lazyload":true} {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Captain `was sleeping\u0026#039; as Greek ferry struck rocks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Independent.ie","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://m.independent.ie/theme/_base/"},"@id":"independent.ie"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.independent.ie/theme/amp/images/0bafced9f7194fe484475000f0550f64.jpg","height":"700","width":"1240"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.independent.ie/"},"dateCreated":"2007-05-10T10:31:41.000Z","dateModified":"2007-05-10T10:31:41.000Z","datePublished":"2000-09-29T23:11:00.000Z","keywords":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://www.independent.ie/theme/amp/images/0bafced9f7194fe484475000f0550f64.jpg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"By DANIEL McGRORY"},"description":"BEREAVED families yesterday vowed to bankrupt the owners of the sunken ferry Express Samina with legal actions and poured scorn on the amount of compensation offered, as the captain admitted he had not been on the bridge when she hit the rocks and sank, drowning at least 74. vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; According to reports yesterday, Karadimitriou said there is no reason to believe Yiannakis will try to jump bail, and is extremely unlikely to repeat the same crimes he is accused of committing. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, Alternate Title: Greek Ferry Disaster (AUS), Express Samina (US) Subject: Sinking of the Express Samina; . const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; Some passengers said there had been no public announcement when the ferry ran aground. 1999-2000: Express Samina; Look up "IMO 6613548" MS Express Samina French-built roll-on/roll-off (RORO) passenger ferry. script.async = true; return; At 22:12 local time, 2 nmi off the port of Parikia, at Paros island, the ship hit the reef of Portes islets at 18 knots. Some passengers managed to clutch life vests before hitting the water, while others clung to floating debris or the rocky shore throughout a terrifying night. new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], "They put their lives at risk to help us and especially the children and the elderly," one survivor, Mr Panayiotis Hasapis, told the newspaper Ethnos. On the evening of Tuesday 26 September 2000, MS Express Samina left the Port of Piraeus with 473 passengers and 61 crew members. } catch (e) { Your service title Give us a brief description of the service that you are promoting. For a full list of Pakistani films which includes Punjabi language and Bengali language films in addition to Urdu see List of Pakistani films. The trial commenced late July 2005. } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { Three crew members were sentenced to between 15months and 8years 9months for a series of misdemeanours that included abandoning ship without the captain's permission. [6] The fact that some of the crew did not help the passengers evacuate the sinking ferry contributed to the death toll.[5]. pentecostal assemblies of the world ordination; how to start a cna school in illinois express samina captain. Abbasi took to social media and shared that he will be returning to the small screen with Jaan-e-Jahan. Thursday's evacuation was the largest Greek rescue operation since the September 2000 Express Samina ferry disaster, which killed 80 people . First officer Tassos Psychoyios was sentenced to 19years, while Captain Vassilis Giannakis received a 16-year sentence. No one was hurt.Divers were searching the wreck of the Express Samina yesterday for more bodies, 115ft below the surface. let flipPayConfig = { Tya Maru () was a Japanese train ferry constructed by the Japanese National Railways which sank during a typhoon. userID: purchase.granted_by_whitelist_rule.user_id, subscriptionFinishDate: '', if (!! The crew had placed the ship on autopilot and there were no crew members watching the ship. By 22:25, the list had increased to fourteen degrees and water began to enter the ship through the six-metre gash. The rocks tore a six-meter-long and one-meter-wide hole above the water line. The captain and three crew members of the ferry Express Samina which sank resulting in 63 deaths, were formally charged with four offences last night, including multiple counts of murder,. return cookieValue; Both men spent 18 months in prison custody the maximum allowed under Greek law following the disaster. The clock on the bridge stopped at 23:02, which the authorities took to be an indication of the time at which the ship sank. The ship's captain - who was allegedly napping in his cabin - and the first mate are on remand facing manslaughter charges. At 22:12 local time, 2nmioff the port ofParikia, at Paros island, the ship hit the reef of Portes isletsat 18knots. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Column: Did the DOJ just say Donald Trump can be held accountable for Jan. 6? }; window.showSubscriberElements(); The crew had deployed the fin stabilizerssystem to decrease the motions in bad weather; normally both stabilizer fins would deploy, but in this case the port stabilizer fin failed to extend, causing the ship to drift and therefore not travel in a straight line. subscriptionFinishDate: purchase.granted_by_purchase.finish_at, The trial commenced in late July 2005. subscriptionStatus: purchase.granted_by_purchase.sku_code, But Greece's opposition New Democracy party claimed that the Socialist government of Costas Simitis had been too close to Greece's shipping companies and questioned how it had awarded operating licences. vars.user.gigyaID = gigyaID || ''; The disaster resulted in two further deaths: on the night of the sinking, the port officer on duty died of a heart attack, and a few weeks later the CEO of the shipping company committed suicide. window.dataLayer.push(vars); }); const cookies = document.cookie.split('; '); window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; The Greek captain was charged with causing a shipwreck through negligence, breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment, a Merchant Marine Ministry spokeswoman said. Although the Express Samina had recently passed an inspection, prosecutors are investigating claims that the vessel had propulsion and steering problems.