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February 19, 2025
The Civil Guard announced on Wednesday that seven members of the crew of an overcrowded migrant boat from Senegal arrived in the Canary Islands last December. They were arrested for the alleged murder of eight passengers including a toddler.
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February 12, 2025
The Russian emergency ministry announced on Wednesday that some of the 300 Russians stranded in the Sea of Okhotsk, in the Western Pacific, refused to be evacuated. The ministry posted a message on Telegram saying that 109 fishermen were rescued by helicopters and boats…
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February 5, 2025
Sources close to the situation said on Wednesday that the superyacht, which sank in Sicily last April and killed British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, as well as six other people, would be recovered after its mast was dismantled. The salvage operation is expected to start around the middle of the month.
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February 3, 2025
Authorities said that a female swimmer died after a shark attacked her in the waters near a popular tourist destination on Australia's East Coast. The Queensland State Police said that emergency crews were dispatched to Woorim beach at Bribie island…
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February 3, 2025
A Swedish prosecutor announced on Monday that the cargo ship Vezhen damaged a submarine cable connecting Sweden and Latvia in late August, but that it was not deliberate. The vessel, which is registered under the Maltese flag, had already been released.
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January 26, 2025
The German NGO Sea Punks reported on Sunday that 17 migrants were rescued from a shipwreck off the coast of the Mediterranean while two children perished. Sea Punks released a press release stating that the rescue occurred in the early morning…
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January 16, 2025
Walking Borders, a group that advocates for migrants' rights, said Thursday that as many as fifty migrants who attempted to reach Spain via boat from West Africa drowned. Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people on Wednesday from a boat which had left Mauritania in January…
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January 14, 2025
China's state broadcaster CCTV, citing the Chinese embassy in Thailand, reported that a Chinese tourist died and another was injured when their jet skis collided on Phuket Island, Thailand, Tuesday. CCTV reported that the cause of the incident is being investigated.
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January 9, 2025
Both mother and baby are in good health, according to medical authorities and the regional government. Dr Maria Sabalich said that the pair was being treated by an emergency team at Molina Orosa Hospital in Lanzarote and were under constant observation.
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January 2, 2025
The national guard reported on Thursday that the Tunisian coast guard had recovered the bodies 27 African migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean by two boats. The boats went down in the waters near Sfax, which is a popular departure point for African migrants.
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January 1, 2025
The mayor of Lampedusa, an Italian island, said that seven migrants had been rescued but that at least twenty were still missing. Their boat was en route from Libya to Italy when it sank. One of those who survived was an eight-year-old Syrian child, who hoped to join his German-based father.
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December 29, 2024
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Environment Ministry did not reveal the nationalities involved. However, it confirmed that one tourist had been killed and another injured by a shark in Egypt's Marsa Alam Resort. Sharks are present in the Red Sea, but they are rare.
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December 20, 2024
The Greek coastguard reported that eight bodies were recovered from the sea by Greece after their speedboat collided into a coastguard vessel which was pursuing them off the island Rhodes in the early hours of Friday morning. The coastguard stated that 18 people have been rescued…
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December 18, 2024
The national guard reported on Wednesday that the Tunisian Coast Guard had recovered the bodies 20 African migrants after their boat sank just off the coast. This is the second drowning of migrants in one week. The Tunisian coast guard recovered nine bodies last Thursday.
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December 15, 2024
Catherine Anene, spokesperson for the Benue State Police in central Nigeria said that at least 10 people were killed when a boat capsized along the Benue River. In Nigeria, more than 220 people have died in boat accidents so far this year. Most boat accidents are caused by overcrowding…
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December 14, 2024
The Greek coastguard reported on Saturday that Greek authorities had recovered a body and rescued 39 migrants after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the southern island Gavdos. Witnesses report that many are still missing. The coastguard…
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December 12, 2024
A judicial official reported on Thursday that the Tunisian Coastguard had recovered nine bodies, while six other migrants are still missing, after their boat sank just off the Tunisian coastline. This is the latest boating disaster for migrants in the Mediterranean.
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December 2, 2024
The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Monday that they had suspended their search for five individuals after their commercial fishing vessel capsized in Alaska. The Coast Guard received an early Sunday mayday call from the crew on the Wind Walker fishing vessel…
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November 30, 2024
A spokesperson for the Thai Defence Ministry stated that Myanmar's Navy opened fire on a boat group of Thai fishermen on Saturday. One fisherman drowned and 31 crew were detained from one of those boats. In a press release, Thanatip Sawangsang…
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November 29, 2024
A local official confirmed that at least 18 people were killed when a boat capsized in the Far North region of Cameroon, carrying passengers to a market. The accident happened on Thursday, on the waterways that lead to Darak, a district in the Lake Chad Basin, near the border of Chad.
