A team of amateur researchers have gone inside the abandoned ship, revealing its current state – It looks like a ghost from the past
The images of the ‘Aeolos Kenteris’ – once the fastest passenger ship in the world – which has been abandoned to oblivion and decay off Augusta, a port on the south-east coast of Sicily, are absolutely heartbreaking.
A team of amateur researchers went inside the abandoned ship, revealing its current state.
The legendary ship looks like a ghost of the past – it is now rusted, half-submerged, with broken windows, empty saloons and its decks full of rubbish.
The video has been posted on the websites of many Greek social media users, causing feelings of sadness and nostalgia for all those who once traveled on the Aeolos Kenteris to the islands of the northeast Aegean.
The ship was built in 2000 at the French shipyard Alsthom Leroux Naval SA and was named after the mythical god of the winds Aeolus, mythical treasurer of the winds according to Greek Mythology, and the Olympic track and field champion Costas Kenteris.
Kostas Kenteris himself has chosen to live away from the public eye. He lives in the beautiful Zagorochoria, where he has created a hotel with his wife.
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Aeolos Kenteris: From luxury to decadence
When Aeolos Kenteris was launched by NEL, it was the jewel of the Greek seas.
It could accommodate a total of up to 1,742 passengers and 442 passenger vehicles. and reached speeds of up to 40 knots.
“Get out of the sea, Kenteris is coming” said then the bathers of Halkidiki and the Aegean complaining (perhaps rightly) about the huge waves that reached the shores from the ship’s wake.
It had economy and premium seats, a lounge with economy and premium canteens, 127 satellite TVs, in-seat headphones, a passenger lift, escalators, a reception desk, a safe deposit box, a telephone and toilets for the disabled.
However, due to the thousands of complaints about waste water and frequent problems with the engines, manufactured by Pielstick, finally in 2007 it was decided to sell it to Pictor Shipping SA for 85 million dollars. The ship was renamed Red Sea I while operating on the Safaga-Jeddah route, operated by Namma Lines, connecting Egypt with Saudi Arabia.
The ship was decommissioned from 2011 to 2016 in Selenia, Salamina, and was finally chartered in Italy, in order to connect Augusta with Valletta, Malta.
Renovation works began there, but they were delayed enough, as a result of which the ship was seized for a debt of 5,000,000 euros. Today, the ship remains half-submerged in Augusta. Attempts to remove it from the port have so far been fruitless.
Source: Skai
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