Episode 223: The Sinking of the Oceanos

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In early August of 1991, the Oceanos was close to finishing a seven day cruise from Cape Town, South Africa to Durban. While sailing through a treacherous storm all the power went out on board, and the passengers were left in the dark in more ways than one. Neither the crew nor the captain told the passengers what had caused the black out or that the ship was actually going down. After most of the crew abandoned ship, it was up to the entertainment staff on board to save everyone's lives.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph.
0:01.1	I'm Alex.
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0:21.2	Hello.
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0:25.2	I just won in Fortnite.
0:27.9	Oh, God.
0:29.4	Congratulations.
0:30.5	I'm a teenage boy.
0:32.2	But I've been told that this one's a good one.
0:35.4	Yeah, this is a really good story.
0:37.1	I'm excited to tell you about story. I'm excited to tell you
0:38.0	about it. I'm excited to talk about it because it's one that I had literally never heard of,
0:43.0	and it's shocking. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's one where like nobody died,
0:48.8	which we obviously always love, but I feel like it probably didn't get as much like publicity
0:53.6	as, say, another ship
0:56.7	sinking because nobody died. Interesting. Okay. Well, do tell. But before we jump in, our Patreon
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