Ship Wreck

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  17 Migrants Dead After Ship Capsizes Off Greece Coast

  At least 16 women migrants and one boy died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving refugees in the Aegean Sea in under a day.

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  Environmentalists Sue Sri Lanka Government, Operator Over Ship Wreck

  A group of climate and fishermen activists in Sri Lanka have filed a lawsuit against the government and operator of MV X-Press Pearl over the ship wreck that caused severe damage to the environment.

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  A Ship Wreck With $130 Billion "Treasure" May Have Just Been Discovered

  A company claiming to have found the wreck of a Russian warship with $130 billion in gold "treasure" off the coast of South Korea has drawn scepticism from researchers and regulators in Seoul.

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  6 More Bodies Recovered Near Sunken South Korean Ship

  Six more bodies have been recovered from the western Bering Sea near where a South Korean fishing ship sank earlier this week.

• Man Who Honeymooned on Concordia Part of Team Dismantling Ship: Report

  A man who spent his honeymoon on the Costa Concordia is now part of a team dismantling the cruise ship wreck, two and a half years after it was holed and sank off Italy, according to La Stampa daily.

• One Dead, Seven Fishermen Missing in Honduras Ship Wreck

  Honduran military divers have recovered the body of a fisherman who had been missing since his ship sank earlier in the week.

• Shipwrecked Concordia to be removed in June

  The Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck will be removed in June from its watery graveyard off Tuscany and taken to a port to be dismantled, the final phase of an unprecedented USD 817 million salvage effort.

• Search for seven bodies in Dutch shipping accident abandoned

  Rescuers gave up hope of finding any more survivors from a cargo ship that sank in the frigid North Sea off the Dutch coast, saying on Thursday they are searching for the bodies of the seven crewmen still missing. That brings the presumed death toll to 11.

• 29 missing on cruise wreck, captain questioned

  Hopes began to fade for 29 people still unaccounted for from the wreck of a luxury liner off the coast of Italy on Tuesday as a judge questioned the captain over his role in the disaster.

• Captain arrested, 41 missing after Italian cruise disaster

  The captain of a luxury cruise liner that keeled over off Tuscany, killing three people and leaving 41 unaccounted for, was arrested as survivors told of scenes "like the Titanic".

• Migrant ship sinks off Greek island; 22 reported missing

  Greek authorities say a ship carrying a reported 263 Afghan migrants has sunk west of the island of Corfu and 22 passengers are missing.Coast guards say they were alerted on Saturday night by a passenger on the Hasan Reis saying that the boat was in danger, but high winds prevented rescue boats immediately taking to the water.The passengers in the ...

• Two dead, 15 missing after ship sinks off China

  Two sailors died and 15 were missing after a North Korean-registered cargo ship sank in strong gales in the Yellow Sea off China on Saturday.Three of the crew members were rescued after the Kang Bong went under off Lianyungang Port, in east China's Jiangsu Province, the Xinhua news agency said, quoting the Rescue and Salvage Centre under the Minist...

• Asylum seekers sink off Australia, boat smashes into rocks

  A wooden boat packed with dozens of asylum seekers smashed apart on jagged rocks in heavy seas off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging screaming women and children into churning whitewater and sending many people to their deaths. Christmas Island residents on cliffs above watched in helpless horror as the boat broke apart with a crack, dumping...

• Luxury cruise ends in disaster after engine fire

  It was supposed to be a luxurious seven-day cruise to the Mexican Riviera. But two days in, this majestic vacation for thousands of passengers turned into a struggle to survive on the high seas. The cruise ship, the Carnival Splendor, set sail from Long Beach California on Sunday. It was 200 miles south of San Diego when an engine fire all but stop...

• Memories of the Titanic on display

  Grainy images of the Titanic, the now-iconic ship, that had a mahogany-panelled smoking room, a swimming pool and a squash court. But, not enough lifeboats for its 2,200 passengers and the crew.On April 15 1912, the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg and more than fifteen hundred lives were lost.Now, 98 years later, more than 300 artefacts revea...