Within the Gulf of Megara and at a depth of 222 meters, the MINI LORD was noticed, a cargo ship that sank on November 20, 1976 after a collision with one other ship.
Because the researcher Kostas Thoktaridis studies to APE – MEP, the wreck was positioned 7.67 nautical miles east of the Isthmus channel. “It lies at a depth of 222 meters with an inclination of 4 levels to the left.
On the left aspect of the bow, a break within the reefs of the MINI LORD may be seen. Strains, nets and contours have lined it over the previous 48 years…
The chronicle of the shipwreck
It’s a wreck with uncommon shipbuilding strains that left an period in industrial delivery,” he says.
The clock learn 22:40 when, on the night of November 20, 1976, it had simply left the Corinth Canal. The ship was touring loaded with 2,545 tons of iron, from Trieste, Italy to Tartus, Syria through Piraeus the place it might beforehand name for smelting.
In the meantime, one other ship, the COSTIS TAF, had sailed at 21:30 of the identical day with a crew of 12, from Perama anchorage empty of cargo for Koper, Slovenia. At 23:50 the 2 ships that had crossed programs collided. The COSTIS strikes the MINI LORD’s left bow with its bow inflicting it to rupture.
Very quickly in any respect the MINI LORD is sinking at bow velocity as each of its engines proceed to run usually at full velocity forward. All eight members of his crew have been misplaced eternally with him.
“Regardless of the fast mobilisation”, studies the newspaper Makedonia of the time, “high-speed ships of the coast guard began instantly, all of the tugboats left the Vardinogianni refineries, all of the passing ships approached, lifeboats began from Piraeus and Eleusis, whereas a warplane threw flares, illuminating the realm of the wreck… everybody noticed the identical image, wooden, oil slicks, private life jackets, scattered objects of the ship, the overturned lifeboat however not a hint of the eight males of the crew…”.
What the discovering confirmed – The grasp’s mistake
In keeping with the conclusion of the ASNA (Maritime Accident Investigation Board) the accountability for the accident was primarily borne by the grasp of the MINI LORD, who till two minutes earlier than the collision had phone communication through VHF (the radio was on the left aspect of the bridge) and owing to the crane being amidships, he couldn’t management the starboard aspect of it from the place he stood. When he lastly completed his dialog and realized the existence of COSTIS a brief distance from the MINI LORD he was shocked and turned the rudder all the way in which to the correct…
The sort of ship was identified within the Nineteen Seventies as a MINI Bulk Service, which have been very properly outfitted with refined navigational devices for the time. As well as, they have been extraordinarily versatile in maneuvers as they’d two fundamental engines and two rudders (rudders).
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