Does anyone else have any information on this as i know the ship will miss Athens.
Cheers
Leigh
My son said that the ship was really eerily quiet until the search was called off at about 9pm. He knew it would make them late into Athens.
Yes, we were on this cruise when this happened. We'd left Cephalonia and had been sailing a few hours when we stopped. We were having dinner and saw a small boat floating past us (about 10 feet away) on fire. It apparently hit the back of Aurora. We stopped for approxiately 3 - 3 1/2 hours whilst we took part in search and rescue. Several helicopters and other ships involved. We were released from the search about 10.30pm once there was other sufficient vessels to continue to search. We later heard two british people were found in the water about 3am. Got to Athens (Pireaus) about 10am the next day, a few hours late.
The captain told us the guy emailed him to apologise for delaying the cruise and thanked us for our assistance.
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