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'Took a few seconds': survivors recount how sudden storm drowned dozens in Vietnam
Reuters, Published on 21/07/2025
» HA LONG - The thunderstorm came so suddenly that it overturned the boat within seconds, said two survivors of the shipwreck which killed at least 35 people in Vietnam's top tourist spot of Ha Long Bay and left another four missing.
Vietnam hunts 4 missing after sudden thunderstorm capsized tourist boat
Reuters, Published on 20/07/2025
» HA LONG BAY/HANOI, Vietnam - Dozens of rescuers were scrambling in Vietnam on Sunday to trace four missing people after retrieving the bodies of dozens killed when a thunderstorm capsized a boat in the top tourist destination of Ha Long Bay, authorities said.
Tech tycoon’s doomed superyacht lifted to surface
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2025
» PORTICELLO, Italy - Salvage experts lifted Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht to the surface and began pumping seawater out of it on Saturday, 10 months after it sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the British tech tycoon, his teenage daughter and five others.
Major Japan quake kills six, triggers tsunami waves
AFP, Published on 02/01/2024
» KANAZAWA (JAPAN) - At least six people died in a major earthquake that struck central Japan on New Year's Day, triggering tsunami waves over a metre high, damaging homes and sparking a major fire that wreaked destruction overnight, authorities said Tuesday.
Volunteer divers guard Oman's 'unique' coral reefs
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» DAYMANIYAT ISLANDS (OMAN) - On a sailing boat anchored off Oman's pristine Daymaniyat Islands, volunteer divers pull on wetsuits, check their scuba tanks and then take turns plunging into the clear turquoise water.
One dead, four missing after two cargo ships collide in North Sea
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» BERLIN - One person has died and four are missing from the crew of a cargo ship that sank after colliding with another vessel in the North Sea, German authorities said on Tuesday.
France wins suit over history-making shipwreck off US coast
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - More than 450 years ago, a three-masted ship sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing the peninsula.
5 die in quest to see Titanic, implosion suspected
New York Times, Published on 23/06/2023
» NEW YORK: A vast multinational search for five people who had descended to view the wreckage of the sunken RMS Titanic ended on Thursday after pieces of the privately owned submersible vessel that had carried them were found on the ocean floor, evidence of a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the United States Coast Guard.
Searchers detect undersea sounds in hunt for missing Titanic sub
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2023
» NEW YORK: Search teams detected underwater sounds while scanning the North Atlantic for a tourist submersible that vanished with five people aboard during a deep-sea voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, the United States Coast Guard said early on Wednesday.
Uruguay abandons plan to melt, recast Nazi bronze
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» MONTEVIDEO - Uruguayan authorities are reversing plans to melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken Nazi ship and recast it as a dove of peace, the president said Sunday.