The MV ''Ocean Life'' was a

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for a number of cruise lines, including

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and Blue Ocean Cruises, under a number of names. She was sold for scrap in 2014.

History

She was built in 1981 as a ''Dmitriy Shostakovich''-class ferry by Stocnia Szczecinska im A Warskiego,

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as ''Lev Tolstoy'' for the

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. She was third in a series of seven near-identical ferries built for various shipping companies of the

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. She sailed under the names ''Natasha'', ''Palmira'', ''The Jasmine'', ''Farah'', ''EasyCruise Life'' and finally ''Ocean Life'' with Blue Open Cruise Lines, who operated her on a series of Indian coastal voyages.

Fate

The ship was sold for

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, Turkey, in August 2014.

Incidents

On her maiden voyage with Blue Open Cruise Lines on 18 November 2010, with over 400 passengers and 134 crew on board the ''Ocean Life'' developed a crack on her port side off of

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, in the

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. The ship started taking on water and began to list five degrees. The vessel was moved to Western India Shipyard for repairs.

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EasyCruise Life Cabins and Deckplans
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History

Fate

Incidents

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