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April 22, 2025
People close to the situation said that the mast of the superyacht, which sank in Sicily last summer, killing British tech titan Mike Lynch along with six other people, would be dismantled next month. The British-flagged Bayesian was found lying…
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April 21, 2025
These are the most popular stories from the Financial Times. These stories have not been verified and we cannot vouch for the accuracy of these stories. Estonia warns that lifting Russia sanctions would harm EU taxpayers. The British Finance…
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April 17, 2025
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said that three people were killed and three injured in a collision between two fishing boats at a Major League Fishing competition on Lewis Smith Lake, Alabama, on Wednesday. A man died after his vessel was struck by a boat. He was declared dead on the spot.
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April 17, 2025
The Philippine Coast Guard reported on Thursday that four people, including one Chinese national, were killed and seven are still missing after a 25-person dredging boat capsized in a province of western Philippines two days earlier. PCG stated that the MV Hong Hai 16 had 2…
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March 27, 2025
The local governor's offices confirmed that six foreigners died when a tourist sub sank near the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in Egypt. However, they did not confirm the nationalities. The Russian consulate at Hurghada confirmed that the "SINDBAD"…
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April 15, 2025
A British inquest heard on Tuesday that the investigation into the deaths last year of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and banker Jonathan Bloomer, as well as members of their family, who died when a luxury boat sank, will take several months.
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April 3, 2025
The Greek coastguard reported that at least seven migrants, including a boy, a girl, and two women died when their boat capsized on Thursday, off the Greek island Lesbos. A patrolling coastguard vessel detected the boat at around 2 am (2300 GMT), north of Lesbos.
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March 19, 2025
A spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said that at least six migrants had died and forty were missing following a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa. Separately, the Italian coastguard confirmed that it intervened…
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March 18, 2025
According to a letter from a police source released on Monday, the parents of an Indian student who attended a U.S. college and went missing from a popular Dominican Republic tourist resort earlier this month have asked for police to declare their child legally dead. The investigation remains open.
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March 17, 2025
Cyprus's national broadcaster reported that seven bodies were recovered from the sea off Cyprus after authorities launched a search-and-rescue operation in response to a capsize of a boat containing migrants. The broadcaster reported that an unspecified number were believed to have gone missing.
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March 11, 2025
Police said that a surfer was feared dead on Tuesday after a shark attacked him in shallow water at a remote Western Australian beach. Witnesses heard screams and saw a struggle at Wharton Beach in a remote area about 800 km (497miles) from Perth, the capital of the state.
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March 10, 2025
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency announced on Monday that Britain's Coastguard was responding to reports about a collision involving a cargo vessel and a tanker off England's Northeastern Coast. The agency reported that a helicopter, fixed-wing aircraft and lifeboats…
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March 7, 2025
The International Organisation for Migration reported that more than 180 migrants were missing and believed to be dead after the two boats in which they were traveling capsized on rough seas near Yemen, Thursday. IOM reported that the boats…
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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…
