How Many Cruise Ships Have Sunk
It was 107 years ago on April 15 that the luxury cruise liner Titanic sank and 1517 people on board lost their lives.
How many cruise ships have sunk. According to the New York Times only 16 ships have sunk since 1980. Thousands of ships set sail every day and several. Francesco Schettino decided to put the ship in a very tight spot so that a member of his crew could wave at someone.
Foundering which means sinking or submerging caused the vast majority of the big losses. Cruise Junkie reports that dozens of passenger ships sunk between 1979 and 2013 according primarily to reports by English-language news sources. That averages 200 people per year.
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Her eight crew were rescued. There are no reports of cruise ships that have sunken though. TweetShare199SharePin199 Shares Ships have been a part of human history since time immemorial.
Six were rescued two were reported missing. Cruise ships seldom sink by accident though in 1999 Vista Sun caught fire and sank in Malaysian waters and in 2007 Gap Adventures Explorer hit an iceberg and sank. 24 rows Ship name Deaths 2007 Explorer.
Skip to content About. The Times notes that from 1980 to 2012 about 16 cruise ships have sunk. Cruise Ships that have sunk.
