Greece: Ship sunk in port of Piraeus (Pireas, Πειραιας)

[@WW2HistoryHunter]

So sad to see that ship like that. Hope they do something smart to solve the problem. Thanks again for posting great videos. WW2HH

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you my friend!!

[@greekdrivers]

the ship was salvaged 20 days later and sent to a shipyard to be decomissioned...

[@harrylime8077]

What a great experience in my life to take the train/subway from Athens to Piraiéus and went on the ferry, like the one described. For only a few Drachmas (no Euros back then) and traveling ‘deck class’, to Heraklion in Crete, and later back. Wished I could go back in time to those days!

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you for your comments, I remember those days well. I came back to Greece in 1980 and took a similar ferry to Heraklion, Crete, for what today would be $3.. Back then they had a class 'C' ticket for $3 which meant, literally, the top deck and ON the deck for the duration of the trip... incredible memories indeed..

[@shipmanasmilos]

This ship started it's career in the 70's than it got sold to Ventouris sea lines in the early 80's or 90's than it got sold again to two different fleets that they are bankrupted than it got sold again to Ventouris sea lines and named Saint George / Agios Georgios so it's 50 or 60 years old I've traveled with it than it stopped it's trips for unknown reasons got renamed by the coast guard Panagia Tinou. By the time it stayed there it becamed less safe with it's floating mechanism, than in 2016 one of the pipes for the ballast tanks broke down and flooded the engine room the ship started to list to it's right side until the cargo deck's door reached the surface of the sea and flooded the cargo deck. Both the coast guard and the tugboats tried to bring it back afloat and they managed it than the ship got towed to Turkey's scrapyard and becamed nails ( Spoiler alert The ship wasn't able to be on schedule or good rated )

[@VicStefanu]

Hi, thank you for this information and for viewing my videos!! 👍👍👍

[@jimmcintosh9045]

This used to sail the English channel as the Hengist from Folkstone to Boulogne .Many Ferries from the UK found themselves in the Med under new names .

[@beyondonethousand]

The Greeks have the largest merchant marine in the world. If I'm wrong then second largest. They know exactly what to do with this ship. It's easy for them. This is tied in the courts.

[@VicStefanu]

Hi, thank you for this information and for viewing my videos!!

[@jimbonito3766]

Very interesting Vic ... thanks for sharing

[@VicStefanu]

Than you for viewing my videos!!!

[@Angelo-rj5er]

Thank you, Vic!

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you for viewing my videos!!

[@christinaspiridou5429]

Are you Greek? Nice video, as always. I love your clips, I wish they were more popular. You definitely deserve it.

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you, yes, I was born in Greece..

[@VicStefanu]

No..

[@mcfrdmn]

Very interesting videoclip of the sinking ship Pireas, Πειραιάς berthed in the port of Pireas on the Mediterranean Sea located in Greece. I am assuming that the owner of this ship has not acted in righting this ship either because it is not cost effective, or the owners were not entirely sure how to correct this problem. Would you know who is the owner of this ship, and if they have tried to sell this ship to another shipping line such as the Hellenic shipping lines who may have dry dock facilities nearby so that they can retrofit this ship. Another idea would be to consider retrofitting this ship into a floating casino if they would be able to right this ship and stop the leaking so that this ship could safely float. I think that this ship could be put to many other good uses if the right party took over salvaging and maintaining this ship.

[@VicStefanu]

Hi Michael, the ship is too old to be used in anything except as an artificial reef for fish... This ship was once confiscated by the workers that were owed salaries and it is now not clear who the owner is..

[@Terentius72]

I was on the Jupiter Cruise ship that sunk in the port of Piraeus 32 years ago (21/10/88). 🙁

[@VicStefanu]

Wow... Amazing... I bet that must have been an incredible experience, I remember the Jupiter when I was kid (I grew up in Piraeus)

[@tompinion4138]

I was in the port of Athens in October 2016 and saw this ship from across the harbor. Thanks for your video, ever since I have always wondered what the particulars surrounding this tragedy were.

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you for viewing my videos. I think that this ship was finally removed a couple of weeks ago..

[@LL-sq8se]

Thanks for the video!👍👀😉

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you!!

[@nickk7425]

What ever happened to that ferry did it eventually seek? How did they keep it afloat if it was taking on water?

[@VicStefanu]

The ship was temporarily repaired, then taken to a local scrapyard and scrapped in 2017..

[@MrEddy175]

nice video vic, for how long the ship is been there,have a nice day

[@VicStefanu]

Hi eddy, the ship was there for a couple of years and it was finally taken away a few months ago..

[@meandmymouth]

What a dangerous situation Vic. No wonder they were not keen for your filming it but let's hope that the authorities will now sit up and do something about it ? It's easy for me to see that some kind of remedial action taken now would be a lot cheaper than the potential huge cost of a disastrous whole vessel recovery operation that might have to be taken at some future date to say nothing of the resulting catastrophic environmental damage !

[@VicStefanu]

The curious thing is that this happened a few months back and no one knows how they will fix this huge problem. As you said, if the ship sinks (or rolls over) completely, the cost will be exponential but the authorities (as I have been told) are now chasing the owner of the ship.. things like these take for ever to fix here in Greece..

[@anotherblonde]

In the 1970s the port was much smaller, and there was a small triangular shaped grass park about 3 mins walk away, where me and all the backpackers who disembarked late from Naxos ferry slept! In the morning I took the underground to Omonia Square walked to a hostel called Hotel Diana, where you could get a bed in a fabulous old 1920s house on many floors, or even on the roof for 50p a night.

[@VicStefanu]

I was in Pireas during the early 1970s and I remember the small grass park where the backpackers used to sleep at...

[@anotherblonde]

Ships that passed in the night?

[@VicStefanu]

I was always wondering how they could sleep with all that noise.. I left Greece in 1977 but still remember the disapproving looks from the Greeks...lol... I also remember how envious I was not one of them (even though I was 10 or 12 years old) and how much I wanted to travel like them... Of course I had no idea that (many) years later and after 145 countries, I would have spent over 3,500 days on the road!!

[@hughmacmann9022]

Have you been or planning on visiting Zakynthos?

[@VicStefanu]

I wish I had more time my friend.. I will spend one month in the Cyclades and will probably do Zakynthos next year..

[@MrShobar]

I suspect that the owner of record has simply walked away from this vessel, leaving the Port Authority to deal with it. Thanks, Vic.

[@VicStefanu]

ANd this is exactly what has happened here, the ship owner went bankrupt and the ship will probably stay there for years to come..

[@MidnightVisions]

How many Greek ships sink before they make it to the breakers?

[@themisbabalis]

leased by Japanese? I think the Chinese leased it.

[@VicStefanu]

If I said the 'Japanese' I was wrong, I should have said the 'Chinese'... thank you for viewing my videos!!

[@devestatingeffex241]

what ship did you arrive in greece on?

[@VicStefanu]

I came by car via Trieste, Italy with a huge ferry boat owned by Minoan Lines..

[@ericdigeratu]

Was it scrapped?

[@VicStefanu]

Yes, it does not exist anymore..

[@jimmcintosh9045]

This ship looks a bit like one of the cross Channel ships UK to France that sailed in the 1960's. ?

[@VicStefanu]

I do not think so, this ship here would be too small for crossing the Channel...

[@SR71ABCD]

must have a leak somewhere.

[@VicStefanu]

Yes, it did!! Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!!

[@tedsmith6137]

You say "a few months'' and it is still sinking? Slowest sinking on record! No one seems to be actually doing anything about it.

[@VicStefanu]

I think I said that it has been there for a few months..

[@oliwiereb]

Oh dear, couldn't they save it somehow?

[@VicStefanu]

I will go back in 5 years and will videotape an update..

[@dennisverg2266]

She sold for scrap

[@A17YT]

I am a greek

[@VicStefanu]

Great!!

[@alekostheGreek]

ANTONIS T. !!! Congratulations, you are truly unique

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Is the world ready for this earth-shattering piece of information?

[@sgtdornan5211]

Hehe no lol and I am American

[@hughmacmann9022]

👍🏼

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you!!

[@mschiffel1]

Something like this would never be allowed to stay this way in the US. There would be a salvage crew working on the wreck immediately to remove it.

[@VicStefanu]

Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍

[@georgiospanagopoulos4019]

My friend you are absolutely wrong this port of Piraeus was bought from Chinese not Japanese

[@VicStefanu]

Hi Giorgo, you are right, I caught my mistake after the video was published! Thank you for your comments!

[@nektar21rag]

they will pull over the ship

[@VicStefanu]

I will go back next year and check it out.. i bet it will still be there...

[@sweettea5395]

You're very handsome. :)

[@caseychaos5216]

Insurance scam typical ex British merchant ships go abroad flag out and sink with poor incompetent crew !!!!!

[@VicStefanu]

Hello, thank you for watching my videos!! 👍👍👍

[@thenexus8532]

CRAB in a ROK pool

[@ProPro-qz6mf]

are u greek?

[@VicStefanu]

Yes, I was born in Greece, grew up in the USA

[@diskreetdigitalaustralia9444]

This ship has been refloated and gone. its already broken up for scrap in Turkey, watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKe9e6efppp-m5I kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2bPlYWFpLWeiZY

[@VicStefanu]

Thank you for these two sites. I went back to Pireas in July of this year and found out that the ship had been taken away...