[1] In October 1984 she was on voyage from Emden, to Peterhead, Scotland with a cargo of 560 tons drill pipes for the offshore industry with a value of 1.4 million Deutsche Mark.

During the evening of 21 October there was a gale with wind foce 10 Beaufort scale and nine meters high waves.

[5] The Dutch ship Noorbetta noticed the dinghy and found Lady Odiel life jackets.

[4] A major search was initiated by the lifeboat Carlot, a Navy helicopter, a Coast Guard aircraft and the British HMS Challenger.

Ten days after the disaster the wreck was found by minesweeper Woerden on 30 October 1984 northwest of Terschelling.

In 1986, after analyzing the teeth, five fillings in the upper jaw matched with the kind reported by a dentist of a missing person from the MV Lady Odiel.

[11] Diver Jos Hulting from Blije received the contract for the salvage of the valuable cargo of the ship.

[4] It was stated shortly after the disaster by a spokesperson of Scheveningen Radio [nl] that the Russian captain of the Polish ship Nicolai Rej, who found the captain of the MV Lady Odiel, that the message he sent was contrary to procedure and he didn't inform the local coastal station, which is mandatory when finding a drowning person.

Due to this it was almost five hours before Scheveningen Radio received the message and therefore valuable time was lost in searching for the other drowning people.