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 …
Category Archive: Sea Tragedy
British Couple Saved After 40 Days Stranded At Sea
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 …
British and French nuclear submarines collide in Atlantic
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 …
U.S. fishermen on ice floe rescued, one dead
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 …
39 Dead, 5 Missing in Vietnam Ferry Sinking
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 …