From Doomed Voyager to Victorious Wreckage - Part One

When Mohamed Saeed first stepped aboard MV Victory as the Chief Electrical Officer, little could he have known that it would be his first and final voyage on the doomed cargo ship.

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A rare photograph of MV Victory in her glory before her famous sinking in February 1981. PHOTO/UNKNOWN

Fathmath Shaahunaz

2018-05-15 18:06:08

When Mohamed Saeed first stepped aboard MV Victory as the Chief Electrical Officer, little could he have known that it would be his first and final voyage on the doomed cargo ship.

“I was one of the last to be rescued,” he revealed, thirty-seven years after the freighter sank off the coast of airport island Hulhule to become the most famous shipwreck in the Maldives.

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