Robin Boltman - Hero of the Oceanos

 I was so sad to hear about the passing of Robin Boltman, one of our hero's from the Oceanos.  Robin was a lovely man always joking!  Robin you will be sadly missed by everyone - Condolences to your family and friends, we were honored to have known you. 💔😭

Your legacy will live on forever!  Thank you for all you did. 

I found these photos from our first Oceanos Reunion back in 1991 I was so gawky back then, but the only photos I have with Robin! 

RIP dear friend. 

30 Year Oceanos Reunion 2021

I posed on Facebook to see if any of the passengers, crew or resuce people would be interested in having a 30 year reunion in 2021, somewhere on the East Coast of South Africa!  So I thought I might put it out there on the world wide web too.  If you are interested leave a comment here with your email address! 

AGAINST ALL ODDS

Andrew Pike has written a book about the Rescue of the ill fated cruise ship Oceanos, if you would like a copy please go to his website https://www.oceanosrescue.com and order a copy.

I received my signed copy in the mail on Thursday and have recently started to read it, it looks really interesting.

Information Please

Hi This is a message from Kate Szell on the "Oceanos Survivors & Friends" page on Facebook, maybe someone here may be able to help.

Hello everyone,

I'm helping make a weather documentary that includes a bit about the Oceanos sinking. We've got the OK from NBC to use some of the footage from their documentary but we want to contact those people who actually shot the footage to make sure they are OK with our using it. We've spoken to some people but are having difficulty finding some others.

Does anyone have contact details for the following:
Karen Winter, Piet Niemand, Sandra Palmer, George and Gerda Walton, Anthony Keith Garner and whoever it was who shot footage from the Nedlloyd Mauritius.

If you are one of these people, or know how i can get in touch, please let me know either by reply to this or by email to kate.szell@dsp.tv.

Many, many thanks,
Kate

Looking for Owners of Film Footage taken when the Oceanos Sank

Hi Everyone,

Please see e-mail I received below and if anyone can help please get in touch with Kate directly:

I’m working for a UK TV production company and we’re making a series of programmes for BBC Earth and Channel 5 about extreme weather events.  We’re featuring a number of stories about British people who have got caught up in extreme weather events and one of our stories is about the sinking of the Oceanos. 

 

We’ve spoken to a number of people, including Moss Hills, about the sinking and are now looking for people who were filming during the disaster.  We have spoken to NBC and they are happy for us to use footage from their documentary about the event.  However, we wanted to get consent from the people who had shot the actual footage as it is the footage shot by people who were there that we are interested in.   NBC has given us the names of some of the people whose footage they used but they are a bit short on contact details for them.

 

I don’t know if you have any contact details or if you’d be OK for me to put a post on the Oceanos Survivors & Friends Facebook page?  Also, I don’t suppose you know who filmed the footage that was used by NBC of people jumping off the sinking Oceanos to “swim” to the inflatable boats?  We think the footage was taken by someone on the Nedlloyd Mauritius, but are not certain.

 

With many thanks for your help.

 

Kindest regards,

 

 

Kate

 

Kate Széll

Archive Researcher

 

DSP Ltd. Shepherd's Building Central, Charecroft Way, London, W14 0EE

T: 020 74829610 | kate.szell@dsp.tv | www.dsp.tv

A Greek Hero ...

I get so tired of people stereotyping - Your nationality doesn't make you who you are - so many people have slated the Greeks in my posts on this blog, however I know there are so many Greek sailors that helped out when the Oceanos Sank, and if it were not for these Greek sailors I am sure a lot of lives would have been lost, especially of those who went in the life boats.   Just because the Captain was a yellow Coward is no reflection on his nationality, why a lot of those that jumped ship in the first life boats that were half empty and also raided the cabins were in fact Philipino's and other nationalities too.

So it was so nice to read this story on MSN news this morning:

http://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/migrant-boat-crisis-the-story-of-the-greek-hero-on-the-beach/ar-BBiGCh8?ocid=SKY2DHP

 

Facebook Page

Join our Facebook page to see some awesome new photographs posted by one of the friends of the Oceanos.  

The Oceanos at the bottom of the Sea

I received an email from Emlyn Brown the other day, if you like me, snf youdon't know who Emlyn Brown is, then Google his name.  While searching for the wreck of the Waratah they came across the Oceanos lying on the sea bed, and he kindly sent me these photos.  They are quite eerie, and I wonder what is inside, would love to get some photos and footage of inside the ship now.    All my lost artifacts still in my cabin on Venus Deck, including my passport, at least 3 bottle of Bols and all my clothes.  I wonder if in 50 years time someone will bring up everything and they will put it in a museum somewhere, I doubt whether I will be around to know.

I haven't had too much time to read all the articles on Emlyn, so I am going to do some research on the Waratah and Emlyn Brown and then do a post as soon as I have a bit of time, however you can always read about it on the net.

Please don't copy these photos without Emlyn's permission:

Pictures of the final moments of the Oceanos

I found these photos on Robin Boltman's Facebook and he was very obliging in letting me share them.

Disasters at Sea .... Why Ships Sink

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/disasters-at-sea-why-ships-sink/4od

Oceanos Sinks

Motor Yacht YOGI sink today 17/02/2012 in Aegean waters in Greece near S...

Brings back some memories.

Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: Cruise liner captains don't go down with their ships

Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: Cruise liner captains don't go down with their ships:

'via Blog this'

Radio Show on CBC Radio 1 - January 22nd, 2011

I was privileged to be contacted for an interview on Radio 1, you can listen to myself and Moss Hills being interviewed here:  http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2189319178&position=10588&site=cbc.news.ca   ...... From about 1:10 (1 hour, 10 minutes)

Did our sinking magician go down with the Concordia? - Daily News | News | IOL.co.za

Did our sinking magician go down with the Concordia? - Daily News | News | IOL.co.za:

'via Blog this'

Must a captain be the last one off a sinking ship?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16611371

Scorned Cruse Ship Captain not alone in History

http://news.discovery.com/history/ship-captain-abandon-history-120117.html

South African couple on board Sinking ship

Italian cruise ship hits rocks

Italian cruise ship hits rocks: A cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy killing at least six people. See all the pictures from the dramatic evacuation.

Captain ... My Captain ...

Seems like another "heroic" captain has emerged from yet another cruise liner disaster, so I guess Captain Yanis Avranis will not be the only captain to have left his vessel with stranded passengers on board, wow the photos from this article of the sinking of the Costa Concordia, brought back so many horrific memories:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086831/Costa-Concordia-accident-Pictures-cruise-ship-sinking-coast-Italy-Titanic-like-scene.html