Over the past century, several dozen cruise ships have sunk due to various causes and impacts, including wartime activities, accidents, and severe weather. Since 1912, a cruise ship has sunk an average of once every 4.5 years, underscoring the rarity of these incidents. However, as cruises are one of the safest vacation options, there have been some incidents with cruise ships sinking in the past 100 years.
In the past 100 years, approximately 24 cruise ships have sunk, including river cruise ships and ocean liners. The causes and impacts of these incidents vary, including wartime activities, accidents, and severe weather. Despite the rarity of sinkings in modern history, the Titanic sinking impacted maritime law so much that there are more than enough.
Within the last 111 years, over 20 cruise ships and ocean liners have sunk. In recent times, no major line has literally sunk like the Titanic. Only 11 ocean cruise ships have sunk while on a cruise in the last 50 years, with an average of 100 sailings per ship per year.
The Costa Concordia, an Italian cruise ship, ran aground, capsized, and sank in shallow waters off the Isola del Giglio, killing 32 people. A cruise ship sinking is an extremely rare occurrence, but modern cruise ships are equipped with advanced safety measures, technology, and protocols that can help prevent such incidents.
Fifteen cruise vessels sank, and 16 people died in cruise ship accidents. However, the number of incidents aboard ship, including outbreaks of disease, remains relatively low compared to the total number of ships that have safely operated.
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The majority of these ships only suffered damages, many of them only minor. Only some of the ships in the article sunk, so why does the title say the article is about 20 ships ‘that sunk’? It is also unpleasant that in some cases we don’t get to hear how the ship that was involved in the accident was named, and in at least one case (#7) not even when and where it happened.
There’s a article on YouTube of the ballast tanks of M/V Arvin several years before it sank. They’re so rusty it’s hard to believe they were willing to sail on it. The article was posted well before the sinking and its so bad they thought it noteworthy enough to put it on YouTube so that thing never should have been able to sail.
Only 2 (technically only 1) of the 20 ships in this article sank. 18 of them just hit something. Maybe the article should be called “20 ships that hit something caught on camera”. I am not sure you know the definition of “sinking”. Sinking = go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged.
🇧🇷 Since I was around five or six years old, I remember there was a encyclopedia in my house which I loved to flip the pages. In one book’s page there was the story of the Titanic and its picture. Right away, when I saw the picture, for a reason I cannot explain I felt extremely uncomfortable. I never in my life went to any navigation in open sea and, when in the beach, I never touch my feet in the ocean water. It is something I cannot explain why I do feel this way.🇧🇷
I was on a Trip from France to uk . so first I need to tell you about the pier in dover. There was scaffolding on the the end of the thing separates the gates and the ferry crashed into the scaffolding on the side there was a creek from the metal and it crushed the scaffolding. luckily no one was on the scaffolding but most of it had fallen off into the water.
Its crazy that 32 died with that one side staying above water, id say they lost footing and fell into the water could get back to a place above the surface and drowned but 2 ppl a koren newlywed couple on their honeymoon was. Found 3 days later after wreck alive inside the ship, they found something to eat to stay alive .
This may be a stupid question but I’m genuinely curious for an answer.. What would happen if you held on to the end of a sinking ship (like #12 stellar banner) as it goes down? ..and I know the obvious answer is “duh you would go under water with it” but I’m referring to the actual experience as to exactly what would happen if you had on diving equipment and grabbed it as it goes down…
Ways how to survive an sinking ship: 1. IF YOUR IN THE ENGINE ROOM GET OUT NOW BECAUSE OF THE WATER TIGHT DOORS 2. Get on a lifeboat with a life jacket 3. No lifeboats DO NOT STAY ON THE SHIP because if it’s capsizeing JUMP IN THE WATER 4. No anything? JUMP IN THE WATER!!!! 5. In the deep sea you must find a thing that you can stay on 6. Cold ocean? Find an debri and get on it 7. Wait until an rescue ship/boat comes 8. No rescue ships/boats then your maybe stuck in the ocean 9. No rescue boats/ships find an lifeboat 10. Life jacket is on if you don’t then you must try not let yourself sink 11. Water mine is fast sinking 12. Rock is slow sinking 13. Torpedo is medium sinking 14. Boat collision is fast and medium 15. Good luck
for the number 3 incident – Alanis & Florence Spirit – the Florence Spirit was going too fast and got too near to the bank causing bank suction which veered it in the middle of the canal. the incident report is available here: bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/marine/2020/m20c0188/m20c0188.html
This is a crap article production. Titled “….caught on camera”, it’s too bad you don’t get to see the articles of the ship incidents played straight through. Instead, you get the result of some editor who seems to have fallen in love with clipping and rapid snippets. Terrible opportunity lost, folks. So much for “The Finest” living up to their website name – all crap!
If a lone cigarette was allowed to cause a fire of that magnitude on a Princess cruise ship, then something was wrong with that ship’s Construction. A burning cigarette coal should never have been able to catch and burn to that magnitude. Flame retardant materials didn’t work, fire suppression systems did not function properly, or perhaps not enough fire suppression stations, but some other weak Link in the chain was present besides just a cigarette butt. Try starting a campfire with a cigarette butt. Although it has a substantial coal, you’ll find it’s not usualy as easy as one might imagine.
A note on Spanish pronuncuation, if it matters to you, the narrator. Whilst many languages pronounce vowels in more than one way, Spanish gives only one sound to each vowel. O is always pronounced oh,.never aw. So Cozumel is not pronounced cawzumel. But o as in boat, Co zu mel. (A is always ah, E is the long A sound like main and Spain, I is the long e as in speed and meat, O is always like moan or boat, U is like boot or hoot.) These are regular with no exceptions for native Spanish words.