Maritime Accidents

Coast Guard rescues sinking boat

ASBURY PARK — Coast Guard crews plucked eight unidentified people off the deck of their sinking boat late this morning, Coast Guard officials reported. A leaking hose was spewing ocean water into the engine room of the Jamaican...

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Indonesian ferry with over 200 people sinks: police

A ferry carrying more than 200 people sank off Indonesia's Sumatra island, possibly due to bad weather, police said Sunday. The Dumai Express was sailing from Batam island to Pekanbaru in Riau province when it went down at...

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Coast Guard Saves Fishermen From Sinking Boat

The Patricia Jean ran aground on the break wall in Point Judith Harbor. U.S. Coast Guard Two men heading out to sea on a fishing trip were rescued on the Rhode Island coast early Saturday morning. Â The men were in the 65-foot...

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6 MORE SHIPS SUNK; BRITISH WEIGH BAN ON REICH EXPORTS (11/21/39)

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum First session: September 1, 2009. [O]n November 21 Himmler announced to the public that the assassination plot...

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Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior sails into Edinburgh

Published Date: 21 November 2009 IT'S been battered, rammed, kidnapped, confiscated and chased. When it comes to ships, there's few with a name as famous as the Rainbow Warrior – and none with such a dramatic history. The...

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ioSafe Solo 2TB Fireproof & Waterproof External Hard Drive $369.99 Free Shipping

ioSafe Solo 2TB Fireproof & Waterproof External Hard Drive offers on site disaster protection for your data using ioSafe's patented technologies including FloSafe air flow cooling, HydroSafe waterproof barriers and the DataCast...

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Work on national highways to be speeded up

Impediments hampering widening of roads sorted out at a meeting held on Friday Flyover at Kottara junction to be ready in three months Land acquisition process in final stages — Photo: R. Eswarraj MAKING A POINT: M.N....

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Spanish divers missing in Red Sea

Two Spanish divers are missing after their dive boat sank in rough seas near Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Fourteen other people - both tourists and crew - have been rescued after the boat Coral Sea capsized and sank just off Naama...

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'Unsafe' sunk fishing boat raised

A fishing boat has been raised from the bottom of Poole Harbour after it sank earlier in the week. The 40ft (12m) Channel Chieftain IV sank at its moorings at Poole Quay on Monday evening. The deep sea fishing vessel had been...

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Fishing town's black day recalled

So much fish was landed at Wick it made it Europe's largest herring port As talks begin in Brussels on European Union rules on fishing, far north-based historical researcher Ed Campbell looks back at a boom time for Scottish...

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