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MS ''Sea Diamond'' was a
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operated by
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. She was built in 1984 by
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,
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for
Birka Line Birka Cruises (formerly Birka Line) was an Ålandian shipping company that operated a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During ...
as ''Birka Princess''. The ship ran aground near the
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island of
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5 April 2007, and sank the next day leaving two passengers missing and presumed dead.


History

Originally named ''Birka Princess'', the ship was built by the Finnish
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at their
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in
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Vessel SEA DIAMOND
- DNV Exchange at a cost of 350 million
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(
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58,9 million). She was delivered in 1986 and operated for
Birka Line Birka Cruises (formerly Birka Line) was an Ålandian shipping company that operated a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During ...
in the Baltic Sea cruiseferry market, sailing on 24-hour cruises between
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in Sweden and
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in Finland. Between 1990 and 2003 she also made longer cruises around the
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during the summer season. Between 1992 and 2002, the ship's exterior was used to portray the fictional ship MS ''Freja'' in the Swedish TV
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''
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''. As built, she had a small
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, with space for 80 passenger
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s and a
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on the
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in the rear. Like most
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in the Baltic Sea, she was built to
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1A. In 1999 she was extensively refitted at Lloyd Werft in
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at a cost of approximately
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26 million.Louis Takes Delivery of a New Large Cruise Ship
- Press release, 17 March 2006 (PDF) The fore
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was extended and streamlined and 62 new passenger cabins were added, including a new deck of cabins above the
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. In October 2004, when the new MS ''Birka Paradise'' was delivered, the ''Birka Princess'' started making two-night cruises from Stockholm to
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, Helsinki and
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, as well one weekly 24-hour cruise from Stockholm to
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. The new itineraries proved largely unsuccessful, and on 2 January 2006, the ship was laid up in Mariehamn and put up for sale. In February 2006 she was sold to the
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-based
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for US$35 million (€29.4 million). As built, the ship only had an indoor pool in the
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section on deck 2 in the bow of the ship. A new outdoor swimming pool was installed and the sundeck area increased at
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,
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. She entered service in the
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as the second former Birka Line ship in the Louis Cruise Lines fleet, after MS ''Princesa Marissa'', the former MS ''Prinsessan''/''Finnhansa''. After the sale she was registered in
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,
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. She changed flags in late 2006. At the time of her sinking she was owned by Elona Maritime Ltd, a company based in Malta,
work on the ship included two
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s by
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Åsa Hellman.


Sinking

On 5 April 2007, at around 16:00
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(13:00
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) the ship ran aground on a well-marked volcanic reef east of
Nea Kameni Nea Kameni is a small, uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located in the Aegean Sea, within the flooded Santorini caldera. Nea Kameni (new burnt) and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (old burnt) have formed over the past tw ...
, within the
caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant detriment to the str ...
of the Greek island of
Santorini Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southern ...
, began taking on water, and listed up to 12 degrees to starboard before her watertight doors were reportedly closed (a report which was later refuted when the wreck was examined). The 1,153 passengers, mostly Americans and 60 Canadians, were initially all reported to be safely evacuated in three-and-a-half hours, with four injuries. Some passengers, including a group of 77 students from
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in
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, were evacuated from the car ramp through the former car deck onto boats, but some passengers had to climb down rope ladders from the higher decks. The ship was towed off the rocks, and her list stabilized. Later, it was reported that two French passengers were missing. The large amount of water taken on board led to the ship sinking shortly before 7:00 EEST on 6 April 2007, only a few hundred metres from the shore. Video footage shows that, toward the end, the ship completely capsized before settling
stern The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. O ...
first onto the sea floor. It was later reported that the tip of the
bulbous bow A bulbous bow is a streamlined flaring or protruding bulb at the bow (or front) of a ship just below the waterline. The flare or bulb modifies the way the water flows around the hull, reducing drag and thus increasing speed, range, fuel effici ...
was only 62 metres (203 feet) below sea level, but the
stern The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. O ...
was in water up to 180 metres (590 feet) deep. It is feared that the wreck would soon slide deeper and sink into the submerged caldera of the
volcanic A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often fo ...
island. It has been speculated that the deep, almost vertical shore of the bathtub-like caldera made it impossible to
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the ship and save her from becoming a total loss.


Missing

Two French citizens, Jean Christophe Allain, aged 45, and his daughter Maud, 16, were listed as missing. Allain's wife said her cabin filled with water when the ship struck rocks and that she narrowly escaped. She was not sure whether her husband and daughter made it out, because the events happened so suddenly. Her son was on deck at the time and was evacuated safely. The family were accommodated in cabin 2014, an outside standard cabin on the starboard side of the vessel on deck 2, the lowest passenger deck. Divers examined the wreck on 6 April to gather information on the ship's current position and to seek the missing passengers, but the search of the cabin recovered nothing. Divers continued searching on 10 April, but nothing was reported. Later in the same day, local governors apologized to the French family for their missing relatives. The black box containing the recordings of the conversations before the crash was discovered on 15 April, while the bodies of the two missing persons were never found.


Investigations

On 7 April, Greek authorities announced that they were charging the captain and five other officers with negligence. State television reported they were charged with causing a shipwreck through negligence, breaching international shipping safety regulations and polluting the environment. Additional charges could be made depending on the fate of the two missing passengers. All six were released until further notice but if convicted they could face a five-year prison sentence. On 13 April 2007, it was reported that investigators using a remotely controlled submarine found the ship's data recorder ( VDR). In a struggle to protect the data, they secured it in a special sterilized bin and the authorities were to have transferred it to the
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in order to reveal the saved
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, an action that only the manufacturer of the VDR can perform. The Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said the recorder could reveal details of the sinking of the ship which could be used in the prosecution of crew members. DNV, one of the world's leading classification agencies, stated in their press release that "At the time of the accident, DNV had issued class certificate, safety management certificate and ship security certificate. ''Sea Diamond'' had no overdue surveys and no condition of class". For the ''Sea Diamond'' to have been issued a Class certificate, her water-tight doors would have to have been fully operational. Investigations carried out by the defense team of the Master of the Vessel and Louis Cruise Lines, after a lawsuit had been filed against them, have included a new
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of the area of the accident in Santorini. This survey was carried out by
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, and discovered discrepancies between the actual mapping of the sea area and the official charts used by the ''Sea Diamond'' (and all other vessels) at the time of the accident. The detailed survey claimed that the reef, which the ''Sea Diamond'' struck is, in fact, lying at from shore and not at a distance of , as is incorrectly marked on the nautical chart. The official chart also shows the depth of the water at the area of impact varying from , whilst the recent survey shows that it is only .Louis press release: M/V ''Sea Diamond'' Struck the Reef and Sunk Due to Incorrect Mapping of the Area
, Retrieved 2 November 2007 The findings obtained by Akti Engineering have since been passed on to the
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of the
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and other responsible authorities, with the aim that the necessary changes to maritime charts should be made and similar accidents to be prevented. According to a branch reviewing source, the Hellenic Hydrographic Office initially rejected the new mapping, but a later study confirmed the findings of Akti. A Greek scuba diver gathering evidence for a judicial investigation of the ''Sea Diamond'' shipwreck died in October 2007 from
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after ascending too quickly.


Aftermath

In order to avoid an
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, plans were made to recover some of fuel from the ship's tanks. As of 20 September 2007, fuel had started to leak into other parts of the ship, but not yet into the surrounding environment. In June 2009, some of the fuel was pumped off the wreck. On 14 May 2007, it was announced that Louis Cruise Lines had bought M/S ''Silja Opera'' (renaming it M/S ''Cristal'') to replace the ''Sea Diamond''. On 19 June 2007, the owners, operator and captain of the ''Sea Diamond'' cruise ship were fined €1.17 million for causing
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. On 21 August 2007, a lawsuit was filed in
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on behalf of the passengers who were aboard the ship when she sank. After six years in the courts, the ''Sea Diamond'' captain and an insurance company employee were given 12- and 8-year jail sentences, respectively.


Raising

After the sinking there was much demand from the residents of Santorini for the wreck be raised and removed. Further questions were posed but never answered as to why the ship was moved to deeper water to be allowed to sink in the first place. In May 2011, the Greek government claimed that removing the ''Sea Diamond'' would be "too costly" and said that the 150-million-euro cost of raising the ship should be the responsibility of the insurers and company that owned the ship. The latter two have no plans to raise the ship, however. In October 2017 the Merchant Marine Ministry of Greece announced the wreck will be raised, out of environmental and navigational concerns. It is an
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for now.


Images from ''Birka Princess''

Images from ''Birka Princess'' taken one week after her maiden voyage in April 1986 Image:Birka Princess 1986b.jpg, ''Birka Princess'' in the
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Image:Birka Princess 1986a.jpg, ''Birka Princess'' main staircase


See also

* Lists of ship and ferry disasters *
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* ''
Costa Concordia ''Costa Concordia'' () was a cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere. She was the first of her class, followed by her sister ships '' Costa Serena'', '' Costa Pacifica'', '' Costa Favolosa'' and '' Costa Fascinosa'', and ''Carnival Splendor'' b ...
'', an Italian cruise ship which grounded and capsized in January 2012, killing at least 32 people * SS ''Heraklion'', a Greek car ferry which capsized and sank in the
Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...
in 1966. * MS ''Mikhail Lermontov'', a Soviet cruise ship which ran aground on well-charted rocks and subsequently sank in the
Marlborough Sounds The Marlborough Sounds (Māori language, te reo Māori: ''Te Tauihu-o-te-Waka'') are an extensive network of ria, sea-drowned valleys at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds were created by a combination ...
,
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, in 1986 under similar circumstances to the ''Sea Diamond''. * MS ''Express Samina'', a Greek car ferry which hit a pair of rocky islets and sank near the
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island of
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in 2000.


References


External links


The cruise vessel ''Sea Diamond''

Cruise Liner Sunk in Santorini



New Twist in ''Sea Diamond'' Sinking?

Το ναυάγιο του MS ''Sea Diamond''
- E-MARINEWS


Amateur video and photos


Videos by member of student group
* View from island
April 5 2007 evacuationApril 6 2007 sinking

Pictures taken by a passenger during evacuation

Amateur photos before the incident

Two short video clips of ''Birka Princess''
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