For a man who lost his father in a capsized ferry, John Platsidakis grew surprisingly fond of the sea.
He was just 15 years old when his father, Epimenides, perished in one of Greece’s biggest maritime tragedies — the sinking of the 9,000-ton Heraklion (built 1949), in which more than 200 people drowned in the Aegean in December 1966.
“He was just a passenger, a merchant on his way to Piraeus — he had nothing to do with the sea,” Platsidakis said.
