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[2] In 1988, she was sold to the Agapitos Bros for service in the Aegean sea under Agapitos Lines, without a name change. 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. The wind at the time was 8 Beaufort. Prosecutors yesterday added more charges against all four men, including failing to help with the rescue operation.Mr Yiannakis said yesterday : ``I accept full responsibility for the accident and for the deaths.\u0026#039;\u0026#039; In a barely audible whisper he confessed he was not on the bridge.Investigators have complained that the captain, who was in command of another ferry which sank 11 years ago, has given them contradictory accounts of what he was doing when the 4,500tonne Express Samina sank. 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. (function () { Some passengers said there had been no public announcement when the ferry ran aground. Samina Ahmed set to make her Hollywood debut The 'Waris' actor might be seen alongside Nimra Bucha and Bollywood star, Farhan Akhtar in 'Ms Marvel' Entertainment Desk April 10, 2021 Samina Ahmed, who recently appeared in Suno Chanda, is shooting for a Hollywood project in Thailand according to her husband, Manzar Sehbai. 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. One did not survive the shipwreck. The captain, his first officer and two crew members have been charged with murder,neglect of duty and violation of maritime procedures. . First officer Tassos Psychoyios was sentenced to 19 years, while captain Vassilis Yiannakis received a 16-year sentence. The crew had placed the ship onautopilot and there were no crew members on Bridge watch. [8] This conclusion was supported by an in-depth study of the Ship Design Laboratory National Technical University of Athens, a summary of which was presented at the 8th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, (Papanikolaou, A., Spanos, D., Boulougouris, E., Eliopoulou, E., Alissafaki, A., "Investigation Into The Sinking Of The RO-RO Passenger Ferry Express Samina"). meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, {"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. 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. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? The accident resulted in 82deaths[4] and the loss of the ship. [6] The fact that some of the crew did not help the passengers evacuate the sinking ferry contributed to the death toll.[5]. meteredAccess: purchase.metered_paywall, } Save up to 70% off with image packs On the evening of Tuesday 26 September 2000, MS Express Samina left the Port of Piraeus with 473 passengers and 61 crew members. The 87 tourists who survived were yesterday offered a cash payment by the Greek Government to meet their immediate needs. const onMutation = function (mutations) { In 1969 she was transferred to Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne. script.async = true; userID: purchase.granted_by_purchase.user_id, bundle: bundleValue, } Molyneux described the open watertight doors as the most significant aspect of the sinking. return { There was no note, but media reports hinted at a possible call made before he jumped. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'app_purchase'); Special investigating magistrate Nikos Karadimitriou, who is handling the Samina investigation, has ordered that Captain Vassilios Yiannakis who was imprisoned in Chios along with his First Mate, Anastassios Psychoyios should be set free on bail of 6 million drachmas (17,600 euros). } [8] This conclusion was supported by an in-depth study of the Ship Design Laboratory National Technical University of Athens, a summary of which was presented at the 8th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, (Papanikolaou, A., Spanos, D., Boulougouris, E., Eliopoulou, E., Alissafaki, A., "Investigation Into The Sinking Of The RO-RO Passenger Ferry Express Samina"). Our services run deep and are backed by over ten years of experience. window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; Latest News Tankers } })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KJF4'); The wind at the time was 8 on the Beaufort scale. He then swam towards an elderly woman crying out for help in the water and gave her his lifejacket. 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. Los Angeles, Elliott: Kings use their heads over hearts in trading Jonathan Quick, The problem with Pablo Escobars hippos. Cork farmer given less than three weeks to sell 80 animals left in 'chronic neglect', Cork woman Margaret Buttimer jailed for abusing Ukrainian refugees at Bandon hotel, Cork soccer club says CCTV footage shows discrepancies with referee abuse claims. MS Express Samina ( ) was a French-built RoPax ferry that collided with a rock off the coast of Paros island in the central Aegean Sea on 26 September 2000. On 29 November 2000, Pandelis Sfinias ( ) the manager of the company Minoan Flying Dolphins, committed suicide by jumping from his sixth-floor office window. return 'home-delivery'; 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":""}}' || '{}'); GitHub export from English Wikipedia. He and three other crew members, including Vasilis Yiannakis, the captain, will be charged in court tomorrow. Although the Express Samina had recently passed an inspection, prosecutors are investigating claims that the vessel had propulsion and steering problems. } 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. She was then sold in 1999 to Minoan Flying Dolphins, again for service in the Aegean, when she was renamed Express Samina. }; A total. A Greek public prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the captain and second officer of the sunken ferry Express Samina to be jailed pending trial on charges of manslaughter, an investigating magistrate said. return {