Captain Arrested After Trainee Sailor, 20, Crushed to Death on Greek Ferry

The skipper and main technologist of the Blue Star Chios ferry person been arrested connected charges of negligent homicide aft a 20-year-old trainee sailor was crushed to decease by a watertight door, authorities said.

The victim, a maritime academy pupil with lone 15 days of on-the-job experience, became trapped successful the sliding doorway aboriginal Wednesday greeting portion the rider ferry was sailing from Rhodes to Piraeus. 

He was rushed to a infirmary upon the ship's accomplishment successful larboard but was pronounced dead.

The young sailor's decease has sent shockwaves done Greece's maritime community. 

Vaggelis Galanopoulos, president of a inferior merchant marine unit union, said the fatal mishap apt resulted from the cadet's inexperience successful a demanding and unsafe environment.

The First Port Authority of Piraeus is starring the probe into the incident.