james wrote:
Don't know if anyone saw this...
For some reason the video has been removed though.
Its in Afrikaans but the paper says, that SAS Africana is in dry dock in Simons Town and is apparently in an appalling condition.
http://www.dieburger.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/VIDEO-Africana-le-in-droogdok-20120517Would not surprise me in the least - she is an old ship and has been worked hard. For the last ten years has been run under a strict budgetary constraint with contract crews. Maybe I am wrong here but in my experience a contract crew does what it must while a normal crew tends to go that extra bit further to keep their ship, in which they generally have some pride, just a bit more tiddly.
I think she last received a major overhaul 11 years ago.