Tag: Maritime accidents

UN: Shipwreck off Libya leaves 2 women, 3 children drowned

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CAIRO — A boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya's coast, drowning two women and three children, a U.N. official said Wednesday....

Cruise ship passengers recall deaths, confusion, quarantine

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SAN FRANCISCO — The last vacation Margrit and Lucio Gonzalez took together began with an ominous delay: a medical emergency on the cruise ship...

Coroner: 2 Michigan City men died after boat capsizes

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MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — Two men who died after their boat capsized while they were fishing on a small northern Indiana lake have been...

Owner of boat that burned, killing 34, sells other vessels

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LOS ANGELES — The owner of a scuba diving boat that burned and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, has sold off...

Iran reports attack on its cargo vessel in Mediterranean Sea

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TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian cargo vessel was targeted this week in a “terrorist attack” in the Mediterranean Sea, the country's state TV reported...

Rescue operation underway in Black Sea after coal ship sinks

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BUCHAREST, Romania — A rescue operation is underway in the Black Sea after a coal cargo ship sank, leaving two dead and one missing,...

Italian vessels rescue 47 migrants after small boat capsizes

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ROME — Italy’s coast guard and border police motorboats rescued 47 migrants whose small wooden boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea south of a...

Swedes acquitted of desecrating sunken ferry with robot dive

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STOCKHOLM — Two Swedish nationals were acquitted Monday of desecrating a sunken ferry by sending down a robot in the Baltic Sea to film...

Search ends for Filipino crew member lost off German coast

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BERLIN — Rescuers have ended their search for a 24-year-old Filipino crew member who fell from a cargo ship off the German coast during...

3 years’ probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window...