Sea Tragedy

An environmental disaster is threatening the Maharashtra coast after Saturday’s ship collision off the Mumbai harbour. Oil and natural-gas rigs operating in the U.S. rose for a ninth consecutive week, as drilling in Texas jumped, according to data published by Baker Hughes Inc. Crude oil rose for the first time in four days amid...
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New Delhi, India – It was on August 7, when two Panamanian cargo ships collided off the Mumbai coast causing an oil spill from one of the two vessels that is threatening the Mumbai coast. Indian Coast Guard officials said no casualties were reported to the 33 crew members who were rescued after the...
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Hundreds of people were feared dead on Tuesday after high winds and heavy seas capsized boats carrying African migrants heading for Europe off the coast of Libya. “A tragedy has happened off the Libyan coast with at least two boats going down … with obviously hundreds of people going down at sea,” Jean-Philippe Chauzy...
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Former Washington Huskies coach Rick Neuheisel, now in his second year as UCLA’s head coach, doesn’t remember Marquis Cooper’s hobby: Fishing. What he remembers is hard-working kid with a loving family. Today, Neuheisel is wishing his former linebacker had been with his family in Arizona this weekend instead of on board a 21-foot fishing...
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SAN DIEGO—A Holland American cruise ship returned to San Diego from Mexico after more than 100 passengers contracted the norovirus and became sick. Broadcast reports said about 2,600 passengers were on the MS Oosterdam when the crew declared a “code red” after the first night of the cruise. Events were canceled and the boat...
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A Canadian Coast Guard ship rescued all 22 people from a burning Spanish fishing trawler in the North Atlantic on Sunday, just as the fisherman were leaping into the water. “It was pretty dramatic when you see a ship sinking and people being launched in a life raft, people jumping off the side,” Coast...
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A British couple was rescued from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean by an Italian tanker after spending 40 days lost at sea. Stuart Armstrong, 51, and his partner Andrea Davison, 48, are heading back to Britain on board the supertanker Indian Point. Although unhurt, they were tired, exhausted and grateful to be returning...
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HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant are understood to have both been severely damaged in the underwater accident earlier this month. Both are fitted with state-of-the-art technology aimed at detecting other submarines, but it apparently failed completely. Although both France and Britain insist that security was not compromised during the collision and there was no...
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Some 150 fishermen were rescued from an ice floe in wind-whipped Lake Erie on Saturday after it broke loose from the shore due to warmer weather, officials said. One fisherman fell through the ice during the four-hour rescue effort and died on the way to a hospital, a Coast Guard spokesman said. Another man...
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Police say a small ferry sank in central Vietnam Sunday, killing at least 39 people, and leaving about five missing. Most of the victims are women and children. Officials said the boat sank on the Gianh river in central Quang Binh province.
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