As the ship sank and chaos reigned, it wasn’t the captain who led the evacuation—it was a musician. Against towering waves and all odds, he became a hero.

When the luxury liner Oceanos started taking on water in rough seas during a voyage around the coast of South Africa in 1991, musician Moss Hills and his colleagues suddenly found themselves ...

The in-depth story of Oceanos Sinking 1991. Forget about captains going down with the ship and women and children being rescued first. The sinking of the Oceanos off South Africa's Wild Coast ...

Incredibly, 585 passengers aboard MTS Oceanos survived that traumatic experience, largely thanks to the heroic performance of a Zimbabwean guitarist who became a rescuer, ship captain, and leader.

Schettino is hardly the first ship captain to behave less than nobly as their ... Though all 571 passengers of the Greek cruise liner Oceanos survived a spectacular sinking off South Africa's ...

Must the captain of a sinking ship be the last to evacuate? ... All 561 people aboard the Oceanos were eventually rescued. In 2000, the captain of a Greek ferry, ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools ...

When none of the ship's officers appeared to issue instructions, Moss, who was not easily frightened, began to feel uneasy. "You're on a ship in the middle of the ocean, in the dark of night, in a ...