MS Express Samina Sank Due To Crew Watching Football | Mayday | On The Move
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2022
- On 26 September 2000, waves push the MS Express Samina off course, causing it to hit a group of rocks off Paros and sink, killing 80 people. Subsequent investigation showed that the ferry was on autopilot, with the crew not monitoring the ship's course. They were instead watching an association football match.
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The guy at shore rescue place having a heart attack made me tear up. 40 years old. ❤
Yeah, that really got to me, too.
God bless the rescue man.
First officer Tassos Psychoyios was sentenced to 19 years, while Captain Vassilis Giannakis received a 16-year sentence. Psychoyios had been watching a football match on television when the ship hit the rocks, according to witnesses. Three crew members were sentenced to between 15 months and 8 years 9 months for a series of misdemeanours that included abandoning ship without the captain's permission.
Thank you.
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Learn proper Greeks! "Tasos" is written with ONE "S"....NOT WITH TWO!
@@theonemesis5217 who cares
Good. Prison is where they belong.
Courageous efforts by the locals and fishermen in rescuing the passengers. Kudos to them. Accident could have been avoided and those responsible are brought to justice. Such a sad loss of lives.
44:08 Working in a prison for 16 years, EVERY door you go through has to be opened by someone who is in a safe control room. Then after you go through thr door, that door has to be fully closed AND locked before the next door can be opened. You may have to repeat this several times before you get to where you are going. YES, it is slow. YES, it gets to be a pain in the arse, but public safety is at stake.
Those water tight doors should have been closed. AWWW, it slowed you down. Tough chit. Lives of EVERYONE on that ship was at stake. YES, it may have been a pain in the arse, but it would have saved the ship. What was the emergency that the doors needed to be open? You may have been on that ship for 10 years and never had a problem where those doors needed closing, but none of that matters because on the voyage that needed the doors closed, they weren't and look what happened.
Idea's sound - might have even given them a chance to get to the shallow harbor where the ship might have been salvaged at the very least. It 'might' not have saved the ship - but it would have given people more time with the hull upright to use the lifeboats / rafts as they were intended.
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That boat used to be called "Golden Virgina" and was already a wreck back in 1989 when my now wife and I went on it from Pireas to Paros. We felt unsafe even then.
As someone from Virginia, I feel slightly insulted that we shared a name with that death trap.
Damn right it belonged to Kosmas together with ""Vergina"....there was a painter's exhibition on it in 1987 which I attented with lots of celebrities invited among them Ornela Muti....and a footnote for the uneducated "Golden Vergina" and "Vergina" were 2 ships whose name was inspired by the archeological site of Vergina near Veria in northern Greece.......has nothing to do with the state of Virginia
Apparently the boat required human error to sink, it must have been in reasonable order until hitting the rocks....
Heidi and Christine, thank you both for helping the man onto your lifeboat. You are good women. Your persistence saved his life and it was the right thing to do.
You shipwrecked in the same waters as Paul of Tarsus did centuries ago.
Real heroes are normal people that strip to their underwear to run into water to save strangers!
No longer as too many were accused of assault even sued for saving their lives without consent including officers.
The stupidity. Your possessions are replaceable. Your life is not.
Watching sports is about as productive , as watching somebody take a dump .
It may have turned out well for the two who stayed outside, but seriously if they thought they had to stay out there in the middle of the night in the middle of a storm, they are not the sharpest tool in the shed
Bro! I was thinking the same😂
Bless them both for saving that man. Their hearts are true.
Ahhh, lesbians🙄…………
I thought that was odd too, I’ve never heard of such a thing
One thing I've learned about maritime disasters; it's a defining moment. Some people become heroes. Some turn out to be cowards. Some people freeze and cannot help themselves. Others get an adrenaline rush and spring into action...it changes lives. Some are haunted by the experience, and never talk about it. We never know about the character of people until it's tested.
This is a huge test. To fail is to die.
The two girls were fortunate to not be very smart but unknowingly ended up outside in a storm even though they should have known they could stay indoors. I’ve been outside in bad sea weather and it can be very dangerous.
I really hate that people call ships "boat"
Generally a boat has one engine or sail tho the terms are generally interchangeable
But 😂 it is a big boat a vessell that sails on water
Why can't the compartment safety doors be normally in a locked state with a push button to open to move through? Or better still with a similar principle to automatic opening doors in a store entrance? With a manual opening override in case of electrical failure?
Maybe they are - now. It usually takes a disaster to provoke an upgrade.
It's how they are designed. They are not controlled from the bridge normally (but bridge can controll all of them at the same time in emergencies), but opened locally by the crew as they need to pass. The reason why they leave the doors open is the time it takes to open and close the doors, which is around 30 seconds each way (as in, 30 seconds to open, 30 to close). Still, most modern ships use a sort of dead man switch on the doors. The doors only remain open if you push/pull the lever to open them. Seconds after you release the lever the door closes automatically.
As for manual overrides, they do have them! But each of those takes 1.5 minutes to close (as you slowly, manually actuate the multi-ton steel doors close with a handle or wheel). AND you have to be at the door. With how quickly water flooded (ship was doomed 10 minutes after crash) and with how many doors were open, chances are that unless the crew was immediately besides the doors the ship was doomed anyway.
Ships need a system where certain engine room area compartment doors will auto-seal and lock when the power goes out. [Constant Air pressure keeping them open?]
fortunately this happened near the shore and in warm waters.The rescue was there quickly and people didn't die over hypothermia.
Otherwise there would have been so much more casualties.
True but away from the shore they might not have hit land.
MS Express Captain: Yes Bocephus, I am most definitely ready for some football
No random safety inspections to make sure all of the crew is following the laws like keeping the water-tight doors shut? I mean they had 9 of the 11 doors wide open, I guarantee you it was not the 1st or even the 40th time that had happened. Just like arrogant pilots who take their responsibilities for granted, this captain and crew did the same thing in being wayyyy tooo comfortable with thinking the ship will never sink on their watch.
They should just have an alarm if left open
That’s human nature for you. Get comfortable and and complacent in a dangerous environment and eventually it will come back to bite you,. I’ll tell you a minor but real experience that happened to me. I work in aircraft services at my local airport and mostly that means being on cleaning team. And this includes night shifts. And I have to wear heavy Kevlar safety boots which can make me a little bit clumsy, so going from a very brightly lit 737 out to a dark exterior of the metal steps means just being a bit careful.
Although the airport is very brightly lit at night, the position of the aircraft meant that the left side and the metal stairs were in deep dark shadow. So because I was in a rush because we’re always rushing due to the time crunch, loaded with the plastic holder full of cleaning supplies and a plastic sack of rubbish and because I’d done it so many times before that I didn’t stop for a few seconds like I usually would to allow myself a moment to allow my eyes to adjust from the bright 747 interior to the darkness of night.
So I raced down the steps laden with supplies and bin bag full of rubbish and I don’t know, all of a sudden my foot didn’t properly land on the stair and I lost my balance beyond recovery and I fell down the last three or four steps onto the concrete aircraft stand below. Even now I don’t know how I got away without serious injury. I scraped and bruised my shin, forearms and just bruised my hip. The injuries to my forearms prevented my head from hitting my head. But it could have easily been otherwise. Just dumb luck.
But yeah complacency in a potentially dangerous environment can really cost you.
No requirement to have the water tight doors while the vessel is at sea. Only when entering or leaving harbour.
@@Hino992 ... and when sinking.
What’s awful about this entire situation is that they had a max of 61 crew members that sad night and not even one came to assist the screaming passengers I just don’t think the sentences they got does justice for anybody there was no alarm nothing no steward to tell them what to do or where to go it was all just fed for yourself
Remember when the “queen of the north” sank because the night watch was shagging on the bridge ? Good times
Yeah he had her face pushing the power up to full steam ahead while he tried to smash her bow doors in 😂
Within sight of land. Well yes and no. So sad. So unfortunate, so criminal.
Just started watching this very interesting video. Another tragedy that could have been avoided.
How awfully tragic. Nobody had to die that night if the safety rules had been followed despite the inconvenience. I find it shocking that apparently the autopilot had been activated and left unattended. It’s not even a true autopilot, more like a computerised navigational aid. But I suppose the maritime industry shares at least one trait with the aviation industry, and it’s a motto I remember every time I go airside to work. “The safety rules are written in blood. Heed them.”
I am curious about something that wasn’t mentioned in the documentary. That stabiliser that malfunctioned and didn’t extend like it should have… was it flagged as a fault on the bridge? Did the crew know that it hadn’t deployed? On a jetliner if something of that size and degree seriousness malfunctions during the flight, the aircraft will “tell” the pilots about it either using warning lights on the appropriate panel or give an audible warning either as a unique alarm or a spoken warning.
I would think that big commercial ships like that would have a similar system. It makes me wonder exactly how little monitoring was being done. Was there anyone on the bridge? Why wasn’t the one stabiliser retracted or compensated for? I may have to Google search for the answers.
Imagine losing your life because a bunch of m0r0ns are busy watching the most boring, useless game on Earth!
It was a "true autopilot" for the time. Autopilot's even in aircraft are there to keep the vessel straight and level, that is it will maintain the heading, not the course. Now if we couple a GPS to the autopilot, we are able to plot a course for the vessel to follow. Given the year that this accident happened and the age of the ship (and the fact it hit rocks), it is probable that it only had an autopilot without GPS input.
I will never go on a RORO ferry again. I've heard too many bad stories
Why are the other 74 vidoes in the Mayday playlist unavailable for me? Is it because I'm in the UK and it's content locked? I'm British and the company who has licensed these videos to you is a British company so how can you content lock some of the videoes from me? Sort it out.
No backup power for critical systems? I'd hope doors like these would automatically close via local backup power on loss of power/communication with the bridge, it can be as easy as a relay held by power from the bridge, on loss of power it releases and triggers the door closed via local batteries at each door, that way by control actuation, loss of power, damage to cables, etc. all cause the doors to move to a safe state (closed).
Yeah but power was not cut immediately, so must of been possible to do, very unprofessional crew.
God bless. Have some great memories of Greece and its beautiful islands. Sailed from Piraeus quite a few times. Didn’t know about this. 🇬🇧
The two fuckin ladies..... "well, we aren't even allowed inside". Did you try? "Nope, didn't even think about it". Hahahaha.......
And to think, they were supposedly college educated. Makes me wonder if further education is just more dumbing down. It's more proof reality is mirroring the movie IDIOCRACY. You're either an actor in it, or, hopefully a spectator. Enjoy the real life show.
And yet they saved the life of a stranger while grown men fought!
who won the football match?
They had no idea - of this !
When you hear the doctor say It was like a catastrophe.
His depth & metaphor, the look in his eyes.
All this because of the crews dereliction of duty.
Being the son of a bosun then i do get a lesson or to from my pappi (who Is now retired) .
A ten minute show stretched into 50 minutes.
You want the readers digest condensed version? Then don’t watch it
That’s the issue with this format of video, everything stretched out to the extreme
Yep, youtubers are great at that!
I think you'd complain about a free lunch.
@@herculydia If it took until dinner time to be served, yes.
What a heartbreaking tragedy.... I'm glad at least the deceased are not gone in vain... They've helped thousands of others be safer now. I'm glad criminal charges were sought against the Captain and Crew... And for the young, 40 year old Man who had a heart attack while organizing rescue operations... Rest in Paradise. You saved a lot of lives and I have much respect for you. Rest in Peace to all those who passed away.... 💖💖💖
I'd rather die helping others to survive then live and go on knowing I was a coward and watched others (women and children included) drown.
Those people know who they are, and they have to live with themselves.
Cowardly to save your own life. We're animals we have to survive otherwise we wouldn't be here today. You never know what you ancestors had to do for you to be here.
Nobody knows how they would react in situations like this until they're in it. Panic and survival instincts kick in. Not many people can override the panic.
I almost drawn at sea I was fighting for my life trying to put my head sbove water and suddenly a little boy appeared he grabbed to me and I started to sink, out of panick I had to push hi. Away, it was the most traumatic situation in my life I felt horrible, we both survived a d I told him I'm sorry after words.
This is heartbreaking….some many lives lost unnecessarily….the 40 year old Rescuer who was overwhelmed and had a heart attack is too much.. I’m an experienced scuba diver with nearly 2000 dives and I can tell you - that even with full gear…swim fins…air or nitrox tanks…while you are bobbing on the surface in rough seas awaiting pickup by the dive boat - it’s quite scary - the worst part of a dive. And that’s in broad daylight…in seas that, while “rough” pale in comparison to what these people caught in a storm with a ship sinking beside, beneath them, with nothing but a little life vest. It amazes me that anyone survives these ship catastrophes. God Bless the Souls lost and the Survivors who have this nightmare to deal with forever.
Stiff and long prison sentences for manslaughter for the entire crew, definatly!
Why would that apply to a steward ?
How could the woman say shes happy she got that experience, people died there. Have some compassion, some tact.
Traumatic experiences can make you appreciate life a lot more and mature quicker.
I'M SURE THAT GIANT ROCK WAS ALREADY THERE FOR AGES .IT DIDN'T JUMP IN FRONT OF THE SHIP😅
It had an electric navigational warning light on it
They have passed IT - many times thru the years !
I got a Greek travel add in the middle of this video. way to go you tube algorithm. lol
I know right? I booked a trip. Now they need to advertise Montserrat!
I told you football was bad
Not half as bad as golf or cricket.
Did I miss the verdicts on the captain and officers, or is this documentary incomplete ?
A few comments mention their sentences. 16 years, 19 years and a few others
@@desdicadoric Thanks Adam.
How did the captain get off
It appears from eyewitness that the crew all of them were missing when needed how did they account for surviving when passengers did not
This shows the reasons the ship went down but does not address where the crew were & why they survived when their passengers did not
well , these people know exactly what the passengers of the titanic went thru . when they hit the icebirg .
good work
Random question anyone...who does the voice-overs for these mayday episodes?
The UK narration is done by Jonathan Aris.
Normal standing orders on our Greek owned ship was that we had a Filipino helmsman on duty plus an officer and in bad conditions I used to prowl about, altho my Finnish first mate used to mutter at me!! But at least we could get coffee and a meal. TV was banned on the bridge at any time. The helmsman might be doubled up in icy or foggy conditions; I liked them alert.
A Greek tragedy I never heard of. Terrible lack of judgement.
Imagine losing your life because a bunch of m0r0ns are busy watching the most boring, useless game on Earth!
Year 2000 - 23 years ago !
I know how dare they not tell us the football score.
So did they toss the lady back that would not give up her bag?
Anyone here watching this horrific disaster after Ocean gate,?
My heart SANK when there was no mention of if the crews favorite team won.
Disrespectful comment😤
My heart sank when I read your heartless callus reply. Dude you must have ice water running through your veins . If it was your Mother or Dad or sister or Brother that died wouldn't be so funny. What a di ck !😡😡😡😡
Your heart will go on
😂 I hear ya
Panathinaikos, the crews team, won 1 - 0 away from home 👍
The crew really dropped the ball.... incredible liability
ive already seen this! stop giving them new titles in reuploads, just give them the same so i can not waste time.
this is coming from someone who loves to rewatch content, just dont get my hopes for a new episode up, ok
Smoke some weed,--every time will be like the first time.
@@klausfiedler64 😂
@@klausfiedler64 fair enough, just not legal for me to do that yet, i will however remember your advice.
@@maggie3060 🤗
And the ppl who value there material things than being save ,never had a value in life ..someone tells me get naked so u won't sink and I say hell no this is Versace,it's all I got ..lol 😂
Jag förstår vad du menar. Nej, det skulle bli svårt. Hon skulle behöva sätta in en annons i Läkartidningen. Men jag har 6 månader uppsägningstid. 🥺
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
Lol you don't even know unless you been underway and and a damn cruise boat doesn't count, been there,done that
Safety improvements were not what the industry needed. The disaster was because of human incompetence. Imagine if the doors were closed, everyone was at their post or the ship was taken out of service a year prior. The decision makers were the problem and not foreseeing the potential for disaster.
45:43 The ships of that era dont exist in Greece since 2000!! Now the fleet is the most advanced in the mediteranean with cats and jets
Crew members of this ship: 🤡
Crew members of the titanic: 🗿🍷
Did the captain survive
Every single one of the staff that was watching that game should go to prison, why all? Because they didn't speak up and ask who was sailing.
An endless series of ads, interrupted by brief periods of video.
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Changes in safety are almost always written in BLOOD of those who DIED.
Wow, I just happened to watch this TODAY, Sept. 26th…exactly 22 years from the accident. What a coincidence 😂
I remember watching this tragedy on TV. For days we watched the story anwinding........it was a nightmare......
Which side won? 😜
We learned nothing from the titanic...pathetic
What do you mean?
Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
48:45 That's Theodore Tugboat's whistle
I can't imagine thinking to jump off before anyone or anything was there to get you!!!!
The main factor is the temperature in the water. It is hypothermia that is the killer. September in Greece is late summer and the water would have been warm enough to survive for hours - with a life jacket. No so for the passengers of the Estonia and the Titanic who fell into icy waters.
Desperation, fright and fear are all very real reasons that can make people behave in ways they otherwise wouldn't. When people are so overwhelmed possible that all rational thought leaves.
You'd be knackered in the middle of a ocean. Would you go down with the ship?
Knackered?
@@sharcrum 🤣 broken, in two minds, contemplating life before you jump and it's to late.
Total negligence. Shameful.
Imagine losing your life because a bunch of m0r0ns are busy watching the most boring, useless game on Earth!
45:56 I hate it that we take a RORO ferry at least 4 to 6 times a year.
Nej, tror inte jag heller.
Did men take space children could have used as not hearing any mention of children being on the life boat?
Titanic experience
15:50 xD. 30:00 Smart old lady.
The acting is merely annoying. Facts will suffice thank you.
Name of the gane: football ⚽.
The other one is American rugby.
First the mayday reruns now the boat sinking reruns. Please, please post something new
I mean they've done quite a few of the notable wrecks and crashes. You want some more to happen for them to write about?
Jesus , demanding much ?
Did the vise-president suicide before the results? Just felt guilty? The doors couldnt of been shut right after the damage? Seem all were on slowmotion. Least water was not freezing.
😅😂THE ROCK JUST JUMPED IN FRONT OF THE SHIP ? I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS,BIG ROCKS JUST STALKING SHIPS THEN JUMP IN FRONT OF THEM😅😂
bad dokumentary! It didn´t bother to tell that the captain got 16 years and the first officer got 19 years!😠
too many ads I lost interest
No ads for me
Had a grik immigrant girl in class during High school, and it strikes the resemblance to the grik girl here; she'd have a funny accent saying lots of words, among those -- "stooopet". Lots of griks seem to be described as such, foremost the crew, and the regulatory authorities who allowed such people to be in charge of other lives.
A what ??? Do you mean Greek?
Suppose you are on board. This situation is chaos. If the crew and captain had more time, they could help. But this was panic and chaos. You may hope some passengers had the bright idea to launch the lifeboats and pick up the swimming passengers. But who would think of that and manages to actually launch one. If there are such classical sloops, that is.
"Mayday, Mayday! We're doing 95mph?" No sailor says miles per hour! This is so bogus. The video is also drawn out with disaster filler for other videos unrelated to this one.
That bit at the beginning of the film was actually from a different film about a runaway train not this ship. No Greek ferry, or any ferry, is going to travelling at 90mph.
One million kilos? LOL! How American. Do you mean one thousand tonnes, like in the civilized world. How many elephants is this?
rerun
No shit sherlock. All of the broadcast TV programs posted to youtube are reruns.
These sorts of things are why I despise sports and the people who are fans of it. Breeds nothing but laziness and drunkeness.
SERGEANT PEPPERS : YOUR COMMENT MAKES A GREAT POINT X. I , HAVE ALWAYS KEPT OUR W T D s CLOSED WHEN OTHER THAN SMOOTH SEAS AND MODERATE WINDS X ONE OTHER POINT : SHIPS OPERATED BY. P R O F E S S I O N A L OFFICERS , N E V E R. LEAVE THE BRIDGE WHEN ON WATCH X OCEAN SUPPLY VESSEL CAPT. P. van ESS. U S M M.
Total bullshit ! ............And by the way your cap lock is on...... ;-)
Water tight doors only have to be closed when the ship is maneuvering. i.e entering or leaving harbour.
... or when they are sinking.
Fact check - this is not true.
Watertight doors fall into four categories as defined in SOLAS regulation IX/1.2. Types A, B, C and D.
Type D cannot be opened whilst at sea.
Type C type can only be opened to allow crew to pass through and then must be kept closed.
Type B may only be left open if crew are working adjacent to them then they must be closed.
Only type A can be left open during navigation and special permission must be obtained from the authorities in order to classify a door as type A and they must be clearly marked.
All doors, even type A, must be closed in potentially hazardous situations such as poor weather at night time.
Have you served on any ship because what you said is untrue
You obviously have never worked in the commercial maritime industry. Why would it be mandatory to have the water tight doors dawged when running in the calmest of waters at the slowest of speeds? Can always count on the Google University experts for a great laugh when feeling a bit off.😅
It was no fluke. They were there to save lives.
Why are there men in underwear only ? Weird
No uniforms - found ?
How come people telling they where sucked down, when mythbuster debunked this years ago?
LAGRE SOMES COMMENT : ASK MYTHBUSTERS , TO STAND ON THE DECK OF THE OCCASSIONAL SHIP DELIBERATELY SUNK ... THEY WON'T DO IT !
Remove the rocks. They are accidents waiting to happen again.
Classic wonder why not 🤔🤦♂️🤣🤣
The rocks were there before an after this ships life, an will be after another collision
Only if people watch football. Banning tv would be easier.
So greek mmmmmm
Every Survivor has a Story, I wonder what the Old Lady's Story was and what did she have in her Bag.
Her Husband maybe.
Seattle withdraws it's award for heroism. it needs it back to give to the looters and arsonists it supports.
Huh? What does that have to do with a disaster that happened 30 years ago?
Pretty much Greek standards, nothing learned from Titanic
To be honest 2 m waves are not bad
Complacency at sea kills.
They got what they deserved
Who got what they deserved?
Well you dont know those people are in a much better place. There is no death and no birth just transfer. Religions have made death appear a nasty thing.......but its not. Its all just experience.
17:49...A GREEK GUY, WITH SUCH AN ACCENT?! .....THAT'S WIERD!
He’s obviously from Greek family but brought up in U.K.
STARTS OFF WITH AN ADVERT,BIG FAIL!.