Boat Disaster News Archives

Washington - NAIROBI, Kenya - Crews on oil tankers aren't allowed to smoke above deck, much less carry guns, for fear of igniting the ship's payload.

A semi-tractor trailer carrying hydrochloric acid has crashed on a major highway into downtown Kansas City.

A float plane crashed off Canada's Pacific coast, killing six people, including an infant.

Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat to the region.

It was the sound of the float plane "crumpling" that sent James White rushing to his skiff to look for survivors of a crash he didn't see but knew from that sound was devastating.

Police have named a boy who died after the car he was in crashed into the Whanganui River on Saturday night, despite brave attempts to save him.

"It's still hard for me to believe it at all," said Allegretti, of Cambridge, Wis.

This undated picture released Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 by the family of Italian chef Angelo Faliva... This undated picture released Sunday, Nov.

Bangladesh News.Net Sunday 29th November, 2009 More than 30 people were killed in road accidents in Bangladesh during the Eid-ul-Azha festival rush Saturday while 53 died when an overloaded boat capsized, media reports said Sunday.

A man is in hospital after being rescued from a capsized fishing boat in Napier.

The Sonoma County coroner has identified an elderly couple whose bodies were recovered near Bodega Bay after they failed to return from a Thanksgiving Day crabbing trip.

KUDAT : The number of victims reported missing in the boat capsize tragedy off here on Thursday rose to 12 from four.

The boat sank in bad weather and had been transporting logs on Lake Mai Ndombe in Congo's Bandundu province.

Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 6:59 a.m. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A South Korean fishing vessel has burned and sunk in the port of Uruguay's capital.

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The Coast Guard says the unidentified man was pronounced dead Friday at Seton Coastside Hospital in Moss Beach.

At least 10 people were killed and dozens are missing after a ferry packed with over 1,000 passengers going home to celebrate Eid-ul Adha listed and partly sank in southern Bangladesh, police said.

His father was a lifelong scalloper, his uncles are fishermen, and 23-year-old Chris Pinto realized as he got older that fishing is "in my blood." It just didn't look like it was in his future.

CLAIRE HOWARTH: The police constable was bludgeoned to death by her fiancee, who has been jailed for at least 18 years.

A 72-year-old female passenger was killed while 11 others are still missing after a fishing boat, reportedly carrying 25 passengers, capsized near Karakit in Pulau Banggi off here, Thursday evening.

An elderly man and woman died after their boat capsized Thursday in the waters off Bodega Bay, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.

A California Highway Patrol car was involved in a three-car accident on the Bay Bridge this morning, but officials said nobody was injured in the collision.

An early-morning police chase ends with two Akron police officers in the hospital.

A police pursuit ends with an accident and a watery finish. Shortly after midnight Thursday, Kansas City Police followed a PT Cruiser driving erratically down the road.

Joel Weber distinctly remembers his drag racing boat last Saturday. It was sleek.

Freeman,63, was riding at Genesee and Governor around 7:19 a.m. Monday, Nov. 9 when he was hit and killed by a San Diego police officer responding to an accident call without lights and siren.

A body that washed ashore at a North Carolina wildlife refuge over the weekend was identified Tuesday as the owner of a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast on Nov.

The city will pay $62,500 to a woman who was involved in a car crash with a police officer in 2007, officials said Monday.

A section of Route 125 was closed down yesterday afternoon after a SUV collided with a State Police cruiser making a U-turn. Trooper Peter Gilbert, 41, of Troop A was transported for non-life threatening injuries to Frisbie Memorial Hospital after the cruiser he was driving collided with a 2001 Ford Excursion driving by Kelly Goodwin, 31, of ...

Wildlife officers in boats searched a second day Monday for three Georgia fishermen missing since their boat was sucked into a flood gate at Nickajack Dam on the Tennessee River.

Four people, including a Briton, have been killed after a helicopter crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off the Israeli coast.

Two Australians competing in a speed boat race in Western Australia have escaped unharmed from a spectacular accident.

A West Chester officer was seriously hurt early this morning when he crashed his cruiser on his way to a burglary call.

Three duck hunters are recovering after their boat capsized in a lake in southern Minnesota.

AFP, Tanjung Balai The captain of an Indonesian ferry which sank killing 29 people rejected claims of overcrowding Monday and blamed a freak storm for the disaster, as officials launched an investigation.

Relatives of four sealers killed when their boat capsized during a coast guard towing operation have filed a $2.7 million lawsuit.

JAKARTA: Indonesian official authorized to oversee the victim handling of the capsized Dumai Express 10 boat said on Monday that 12 people were still missing and the rescue team only found a total of 27 dead bodies with no single foreigner onboard the ill-fated boat.

The site of a fatal crash near Hinton following a police chase on Thursday, Nov.

The identity of a Julian man who died in a head-on collision between two pickup trucks on a mountain road in eastern San Diego County was released by the Medical Examiner's Office.

A former Cincinnati police officer who got out of his cruiser to set up a road block but nearly died after being hit by a truck has sued a woman who was high on heroin when she caused the crash.

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated _ beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

LOW on fuel and with the weather against him, Dominic James was running out of options as he ditched his plane - carrying a sick woman and four others - in the sea off Norfolk Island on Wednesday night.

A ferry carrying more than 200 people sank off Indonesia's Sumatra island, possibly due to bad weather, police said Sunday.

There's a search for answers after the death of a bicyclist who collided with a San Diego police cruiser earlier this month.

Testimony continued today in the trial of a Baltimore-area man accused of negligent driving in a crash that killed one of his friends and paralyzed another after a crabbing trip last summer.

A Milford, Conn. Police officer has been charged in connection with a fatal car accident that left two teenagers dead.

A pilot has been hailed as a hero for safely ditching his aircraft into the sea off Australia and saving the lives of all on board.

The Coast Guard says a New Bedford fishing boat became rapidly unstable as a full fishing net was lowered on deck, causing it to sink and kill its captain a year ago.

The owner of a 72-foot sailboat that ran aground in Waikiki early Monday ran into similar problems six months ago with another sailboat.

A small, high-powered fire boat that capsized in Halifax harbour last fall, dumping several firefighters into the water, had limited stability and it took only a small amount of force to tip it over, the Transportation Safety Board says in a report released Wednesday.

Devin Petelski's BMW had just entered a Venice intersection shortly before midnight Oct.

This Sept. 29, 2009 photo shows U.S. Lance Cpl. Chad Phillips, 20, of Geneseo, N.Y., getting his neck measured while taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Loading... Click for full view The William E. Poole, a tug boat that collided with a NAVY inflatable boat and killed Seaman Freddie Porter Jr.

Police on Tuesday released a chilling video of a June police cruiser crash in Orange that killed two 19-year-olds. The video is from the dashboard camera of a second police car, Milford Chief Keith Mello said Tuesday afternoon.

A New York police cruiser driving ahead of US vice-president Joe Biden's motorcade has crashed into another car in mid-town Manhattan, injuring four people 'Hell, I've never driven in New York with no traffic before' - Biden .

The Halifax Regional Municipality rejected the tender for the Firehawk 28 days after it flipped during tests.

A 52-year-old fisherman has died after falling overboard from a boat in the North Sea near the Bell Rock off Arbroath around lunchtime.

Sailors on the USS Hartford that collided with a Navy ship in March were sleeping and spent too much time away from their stations, according to a report that was recently released.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 3:08 pm US/Eastern GANSEVOORT, N.Y. Two General Electric contractors were thrown into the Hudson River after their boat went over an upstate dam, killing one of them.

The fire boat overturned on the third day of training in Halifax harbour. The Transportation Safety Board says a fire boat that overturned in Halifax harbour last year had an unstable design.

The mysterious sinking of the houseboat Midnight Blue at Bidwell Marina is still under investigation by state Department of Parks and Recreation officials.

The body of a Pickering Wharf shop owner who often fished along the waterfront was found floating in the harbor early yesterday morning.

The video shows Officer Jason Anderson's car racing by another Milford cruiser at 94 mph, before it slammed into the car carrying Ashlie Krakowski and David Servin , both 19 .

ONE man was taken to hospital with minor injuries after a bus and lorry crashed near Exe Bridges.

An off-duty ambulance driver who saved the life of a drowning student has been hailed a hero by the girl's parents.

The investigation continues into last week's fatal boat crash. 77-year-old Harold Miller was killed when the boat he was driving crashed into an Interstate Bridge pillar catwalk and sunk to the bottom of the Snake River.

Two men were rescued from Lake Katchewanooka on the weekend after their boat capsized.

TOWN OF SCOTT - The New Franken Fire Department and Brown County Sheriff's Department are waiting to confirm that a man has been rescued after his boat capsized in the waters of Green Bay.

The Coast Guard has rescued two men found clinging to the hull of a capsized boat.

The Tamil Nadu government and fishermen's associations were Sunday able to establish contact with six fishing boats out of the 16 that were untraceable after the Phyan cyclone in the Arabian Sea while the Indian Coast Guard continues its search operations.

The private owners of a nautical towage service were left red-faced today when one of its tug boats capsized in Fremantle harbour.

Emergency crews say a family of three is safe after their boat capsized on a lake about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh.

The motorized ferry "Nay Win Tun" carrying 176 people sank in the Ngawun River after the collision, 84 miles west of Rangoon.

Local emergency crews pulled two men from an East Brunswick lake after their boat became capsized during an afternoon fishing trip, police said.

The Coast Guard rescued two boaters from a capsized vessel Sunday afternoon about six miles off Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Lake Agassiz, which covered much of Central Canada, was formed about 30,000 years ago and eventually held a greater total volume than all of today's Great Lakes combined.

Four fishermen died and three others were missing after a South Korean fishing boat collided with a Hong Kong cargo ship off the country's south coast, officials said Sunday.

Devin Petelski never saw the angel of death barreling toward her in the form of an LAPD police cruiser.

The man who police say was driving his boat with a .22 blood alcohol level when it crashed on July 10, killing a 12-year-old Bellefonte girl, has four DUI arrests in Pennsylvania - including one just two weeks ago.

On 6/13/09 Connecticut State Police initiated a motor accident investigation into a crash that occurred on Saturday 6/13/09 shortly after 2:15 a.m. involving an on duty Milford Police Cruiser and a civilian car on Rt.

The hardware store belongs to the family of Melanie Faulkner, who found the box and began her search for Chief Petty Officer Joe Wilson.

A Coast Guard Auxiliary insignia is seen on the aircraft of Cmdr. John Friedlander.

David Wong came to Las Vegas to try to save it from alien invasion. The native of China has been a researcher at the School of Community Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, since July 2008 for one reason - to wage war against quagga mussels.

Ensemble cast includes Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.

Commercial crab fishing starts Sunday, and Monterey Harbormaster Steve Scheiblauer is more concerned than ever about the dangers posed to fishermen.

Pirate Radio Ship of Fools: Forget the premise - Pirate Radio just gets laughs out of guys being guys.

A PENSIONER from Bournemouth died after her car was involved in a road accident with a tanker on the A31 at Wimborne .

COUNCILLOR Dominic Ryan went out into his garden at about 5.45pm to watch the water rising outside his Glenbrook Terrace home.

No movie can be all bad when juiced up with a soundtrack of more than 50 classic rock tunes.

CLOSE Release Date: November 13, 2009 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Disaster Run Time: 158 min.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. a ' Just before 3 p.m. Thursday Kosciusko County Sergeant Jeffery B. Shaw was killed in the line of duty in a traffic crash that occurred on SR 14 just west of 100 East.

Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains, inundating streets, stranding drivers and causing three deaths in hard-hit Virginia and one in North Carolina.

Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck.

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. a ' Coast Guard boats, planes and helicopters searched the roiling ocean off Cape May on Thursday for three commercial fishermen whose boat sank, and colleagues of the missing men prayed for a miracle.

The parents of a north-west London woman who drowned when a boat capsized off Vietnam in September have lost a second child this week when their son died in a car crash.

A local man who was hurt in a collision with a police cruiser has sued the town and the former officer who was driving the car.

The city police officer whose cruiser rammed another car in June, killing two Orange teens, has been charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter and one count of reckless driving.

Included among the thousands of American flags that will fly over Butte County today for Veterans Day will be the one on the flag pole in Lloyd Andes' front yard.

At approximately 3:10 Monday, the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office responded to a call of two flat boats in the Mississippi River near Fort Jackson, Maj.

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Tropical Storm Ida was a nuisance to Escambia County but little more, officials said today.

A South Korean newspaper details the clash with a North Korean vessel near the disputed sea border that divides the two countries.

UPDATED 2:31 PM - DETROIT - Rescue divers recovered the bodies of two men believed to have drowned when their fishing boat capsized this morning in Belleville Lake, Van Buren Township police said.

Giant jellyfish have capsized a 10-tonne fishing boat after its crew tried to haul in a net full of the stinging creatures off the eastern coast of Japan.

A Middletown man pleaded guilty to 13 charges, but will contest a homicide by vehicle charge in the death of township Officer Christopher Jones.

Rescue crews prepare to bring a pickup truck driver on board their boat after his truck plunged into the Clackamas River east of Carver.

Some Gulf Coast residents hunkered down at home and in shelters Monday while others ventured outside to watch the approach of a rare late-season tropical storm that brought the potential for high winds, flooding and up to 8 inches of rain in some places.

The driver of the car that hit the cruiser, Mario Davis of Highland Springs is charged with reckless driving, and failure to move over for an emergency vehicle.

JEFFERSON--Police and firefighters rescued a Raccoon Island resident after her row boat capsized on Lake Hopatcong on Sunday night.

A man was being treated for hypothermia Monday after his small boat overturned in rough waters off the Point Loma shoreline, prompting a helicopter rescue, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.

An ODOT pickup truck crashed off of Highway 224 east of Carver Tuesday morning. The driver told neighbors who witnessed the crash that he blacked out before he drove off the highway.

The nephew of a man who perished on the shipwrecked Edmund Fitzgerald is trying to save an endangered Great Lakes freighter whose crew at the time tried to help the doomed ship.

A 19-year-old driver is killed after his vehicle crashed into two trees in Elk Grove.

The crew of the doomed scallop boat Lady Mary were likely making their last hauls of shellfish before heading home, minutes before the still mysterious accident that killed six of the seven men and sent their boat to the bottom of the ocean.

Webster Parish Sheriff's deputies are still investigating a tanker rollover accident which injured two people.

A Hemingway man already facing six armed robbery charges filed by Horry County police will face an additional armed robbery charge filed by Myrtle Beach police early Friday, according to authorities.

A RIVER cruiser caught fire during a dramatic boat blaze on the river Avon at Strensham Lock.

U.S. Coast Guard Station Lorain assisted the Lorain Police Department with the rescue of a recreational fisherman after he fell from a pier on the Black River, Saturday, at approximately 9 a.m. "We arrived on scene and a Lorain PD officer had a line tied to his hand, so we went bow-in and passed a life jacket to the man," said Boatswain's Mate 3rd ...

Wistful "write soon" phrases have kept two women connected across the Atlantic Ocean for 52 years.

Levittown - A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he caused an accident that injured a parking enforcement officer in New Hope Friday morning, police said.

Keahihoku Lum and his diving partners had taken safety precautions while free-diving in Maunalua Bay last month, friends said, but officials are now turning to the community to see what more can be done after a boat struck and killed Lum.

A Washington County sheriff's deputy suffered serious injuries Thursday night when his cruiser rolled over on the Charlotte Road after striking a moose.

Robert Decker, the sole survivor of the March 12 helicopter crash off Newfoundland, testifies at the inquiry into offshore helicopter safety in this screen grab of the live broadcast on Thursday.

Deputy James Council's car crossed the center line of Stevens Canyon Road in Cupertino on March 9, 2008, and struck three bicyclists.

AUSTRALIAN negotiators have only one more week to persuade 78 Sri Lankans aboard the Oceanic Viking to step onto Indonesian soil and accept a deal that will see them resettled in Australia or another country.

The skipper of the power boat involved in a fatal 2008 collision in Buzzards Bay near Dartmouth pleaded guilty today of negligent operation of a vessel, death involved, and was given a one-year suspended sentence and 10 years probation.

The search and rescue workers used a boat and a pair of jet skis to find the canoe and rescue the victims.

Home : Canada : Sole survivor of N.L. helicopter crash takes stand Sole survivor of N.L. helicopter crash takes stand Viewer The survivor of the crash of a Cougar helicopter seemed to be far more concerned with ensuring that helicopters don't crash, rather than improving survival training in the event of a crash.

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 5 : Just when Kerala was coming to terms with the Thekkady boat tragedy in which 45 people died, the state witnessed another boat mishap Wednesday evening when eight students died after their vessel capsized, officials said Thursday.

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 4: Eight higher secondary students drowned when their overloaded boat sank in a Kerala river, the tragedy coming just over a month after a houseboat packed with tourists capsized and killed 45 of them.

The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 99 in central Vietnam on Thursday and authorities estimated damage from the storm at $55 million.

A veteran Midvale police officer resigned Tuesday after he was cited for a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence following a four-car crash Halloween weekend.

TWO sailors were still missing and seven had been rescued as of 10 am today after their fishing boat sank off east China coast because of strong wind, local police said today.

At least eight children drowned Wednesday when a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India, police said.

The producer of a new killer shark movie filmed in Bowen and Hervey Bay denies the film will scare away tourists from the Great Barrier Reef, claiming it may actually boost traveller numbers.

BHUBANESWAR:Bodies of all the five pilgrims who went missing after an overloaded boat capsized Monday in the Mahanadi river in Orissa's Cuttack district have been recovered, an official said Wednesday.

The past 10 months saw the highest number of Africans reaching Yemeni shores over figures for the same period in 2008 and 2007, when large numbers began travelling to Yemen by boat, according to the UN Refugee Agency .

Five people were hospitalized early Monay -- including four adults with special needs --- after a van was rear-ended on a San Jose street, authorities said.

The father of one of three missing college softball players said Tuesday the women often went star gazing near a lake in southwestern North Dakota where authorities continued to search by plane and boat for the students.

The sister of a pilot feared dead after heroically saving the lives of his passengers has pleaded for help to get his body back home.

Pink, slimy and repellent, the Nomuraa TMs jellyfish is an authentic horror of the deep that's been assaulting Japan.

Planes and ships searching a remote patch of the Indian Ocean found no signs Tuesday of additional survivors from the sinking of a suspected asylum-seeker boat.

A scallop boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in March, killing six of the seven crew members aboard, may have been the victim of a fatal hit-and-run crash on the high seas, the lawyer for its owner said Monday.

BEIJING: Authorities in China rushed to clean up an oil spill at the mouth of the Yangtze River after an Iranian-registered ship ran aground in bad weather, state media said on Monday.

A helicopter crash on takeoff from a platform in the Gulf of Mexico left two men injured and the aircraft in the water.

Residents attempt to reconstruct their destroyed house on the lakeshore of Laguna lake, Tatay Rizal, east of Manila after Typhoon Mirinae smashed through the Philippines.

Gunmen kidnapped Paul and Rachel Chandler, both in their 50s, last Friday soon after they left the Seychelles archipelago in the Indian Ocean and took them to the Somali coast.

The Cocos Islands are nearly 3000km west-northwest of Broome, WA. A BOAT with 40 people on board has sunk near the Cocos Islands, west of Australia.

WUHAN: Local government is working on plans to contain and retrieve industrial chemicals sunken on a section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province after two cargo ships collided early Sunday, local officials said.

The oil tanker Dubai Star is anchoredA in San Francisco Bay onA Friday, with a barge next to it.

A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 14 people dead in a region still waterlogged from three previous, back-to-back storms.