Posts Tagged ‘ Atlantic ’

A 12-year-old girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemenia air crash has told how she was thrown into the ocean and watched her aircraft sink. Baya Bakari told her father at a hospital in Yemen that she heard voices around her in the Indian Ocean, but could not see anyone. She...
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More than 200 people are believed dead after an Air France passenger jet disappeared over the Atlantic on a flight from Brazil. Officials said they had “no hope” for Air France Flight 447 which dropped off the radar three hours and less than 200 miles into a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris....
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New York, Boston and other cities on North America’s northeast coast could face a rise in sea level this century that would exceed forecasts for the rest of the planet if Greenland’s ice sheet keeps melting as fast as it is now, researchers said on Wednesday. Sea levels off the northeast coast of North...
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The search for 16 oil workers missing after their helicopter crashed into the Atlantic off Newfoundland has now been called off. Officials say it is unlikely the missing workers could have survived. Rescue officials say the mission is now one of recovery. A spokesman says the search ended after 34 hours, adding that it...
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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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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico police say they found the mutilated remains of a woman floating in a seaside cave near the site of a small plane crash. Police spokeswoman Yaira Rivera says investigators believe the woman found Sunday in a cave under a cliff near the northwestern town of Camuy was one...
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MADRID: At least 10 people, including four children, were killed as high winds struck Spain and France on Saturday, tearing roofs from buildings, blowing down trees and power lines and whipping up huge waves. The Spanish authorities said the four children were killed and several others injured near Barcelona on Saturday when the roof...
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Paloma lost its punch as it stalled over Cuba on Sunday and was downgraded to a tropical depression after coming ashore as powerful hurricane that battered the island still recovering from two earlier storms. Paloma left a trail of destruction through eastern Cuba, but not the widespread devastation of hurricanes Gustav and Ike that...
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