Stacoco – Like a Sunken Ship: The Story of the Sinking Dream of Stamatis Cocotas

One of his most popular songs cúcuta stop It was “fake dream‘, with the music of Apostolos Kaldaras and the lyrics of Eftychias Papagianopoulos, which were to be prophetic in a way…

The song was written in 1967 and entered the lips of each of us. “Like a shipwreck / Like a cut water lily / In the lake in murky waters… My crazy dream / My drowning dream».

Stacoco The Story of Stamatis Cucuta’s Drowned Dream

During his long and successful career, Stamatis Kokotas gained an extreme fan base who soon became his brotherly friends. The reason, of course, is for him Aristotle Onassis.

The close and strong friendship between the two seems to have influenced Cúcuta and at one point gave him a germ for shipping companies and ships.

So the singer made the decision and was able to acquire his first and only merchant ship, the Stacoco. It is a dry cargo ship built in Germany in 1952 and its first name was ST. Mikhail. The ship’s chimney is said to have been decorated with a musical instrument (possibly a bouzouki), but it is not visible today due to corrosion.

Shopkeepers in the coastal region of Aspropyrgos, where it is still half submerged, remember “Mr. Stamatis” who visited their taverns in order to buy food for the ship’s crew.

Stacoco’s last shipment was cement, but it never left. A problem that could not be solved the ship was stuck in the place where it has been to this day. In fact, the ship was lost to Kokotas at auction and is now left to rot, threatening the area with ecological disaster.

In 2021, the Up Stories team published a video showing the condition of the ship.

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