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by Celia CAZALE Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — The red sails of the “Dukling” junk boat have glided across Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour for more than six decades. But the wooden ship has been docked after new measures to stem a fourth wave of the coronavirus were introduced earlier this month, threatening the city’s last remaining antique junk. Strict social distancing rules were brought back after daily cases repeatedly spiked to […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese naval destroyer and a Chinese fishing boat have collided in the sea off Shanghai but there were no injuries, Japanese media reported early Tuesday. The destroyer Shimakaze, from Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force, received damage to its port side, Kyodo news agency said, citing the Ministry of Defence. Both the naval ship and the fishing boat, with a crew of 13, were still able to sail under their own power, […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is calling for a review of the country’s compliance with maritime safety standards to prevent maritime accidents. In filing Senate Resolution No. 220, which seeks to direct the appropriate Senate Committee to conduct the inquiry, Gatchalian said there was no need to wait for another boat to sink before the country’s compliance with the maritime safety standards and maritime transportation laws set by the Maritime Industry Authority. He said the inquiry […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Rescue workers have recovered a total of 33 bodies from a scuba-diving boat disaster off the coast of California, authorities said Wednesday, adding that one person remains missing. Search operations for survivors were suspended Tuesday morning, and rescuers have begun an operation to free remains still trapped in the wreckage, which sank 66 feet (20 meters), and to determine the cause of the catastrophe. The remains of 11 women […]
by Andrew Marszal LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Search operations were suspended Tuesday for survivors of a scuba-diving boat disaster off the California coast after divers recovered 20 bodies and spotted another four to six trapped in underwater wreckage. The remains of 11 women and nine men were transferred to coroner offices after the 75-foot (23-meter) Conception caught fire and sank Monday, trapping below-deck passengers beneath the roaring blaze. “Today we will begin […]
by Sébastien VUAGNAT / with Laurent Banguet in Los Angeles OXNARD, United States (AFP) — Eight people were dead and more than two dozen missing and feared deceased Monday after a scuba diving boat caught fire and sank off the California coast, with passengers trapped below deck by the roaring blaze. Fire crews in helicopters, small boats and a Coast Guard cutter battled the fierce pre-dawn fire on the 75-foot (23-meter) Conception, which had been […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – The bodies of two more South Korean tourists have been found after a sightseeing vessel sunk in Budapest last week, bringing the death toll to 15, with 13 still missing, police said. The Mermaid with mainly South Koreans aboard overturned and sank May 29, seconds after colliding with a bigger cruise ship on a busy stretch of the Danube river in the heart of Budapest. Police said late Wednesday that […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — Hungarian police confirmed Tuesday the discovery of two more South Korean victims of a sightseeing vessel which sank in Budapest last week, raising the toll to eleven tourists killed with 17 still missing. “A (male) body was found in the window of the boat wreck and brought to the surface,” said a statement by Hungarian counterterror police TEK, who are leading the search operation. Later, police confirmed a male body […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — Hungarian police said Thursday they had detained the captain of a vessel that collided with another sightseeing boat on a busy stretch of the Danube river, resulting in the death of at least seven South Korean tourists with 21 others still missing. “The Ukrainian captain of the cruise ship was questioned as a suspect by investigators in relation to ‘endangering waterborne traffic resulting in multiple deaths’”, police said in a statement. […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — An oil tanker and a fishing boat collided Tuesday morning off Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, police said, sinking the fishing vessel. Thirteen people on the oil tanker — thought to be everyone on board — were found safe, a police spokeswoman told AFP. Police said they were still looking for possible missing people from the fishing boat. The size of the vessels involved in the collision — which took place […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A South Korean court on Monday awarded compensation to some survivors of the Sewol ferry sinking, almost five years after the accident killed more than 300 people in one of the country’s deadliest maritime disasters. The 6,825-tonne Sewol was carrying 476 people — most of them high-school students on a school trip — when it capsized off the southern coast in April 2014. Almost all the victims were children, many […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A tourist boat capsized and sank in a sudden storm on a lake in Missouri, leaving 17 dead, including some children, authorities said Friday after divers recovered the bodies of the last people who were missing. The accident occurred Thursday night in full view of witnesses, at least one of whom captured video of the small boat bobbing in rough waters on Table […]
