Ferry runs aground off Dumaguete City
An inter-island ferry ran aground off Dumaguete City Thursday morning due to strong winds spawned by bad weather, according to witnesses.
An inter-island ferry ran aground off Dumaguete City Thursday morning due to strong winds spawned by bad weather, according to witnesses.
Twenty-seven people were injured on Saturday in a collision between a Hong Kong-bound passenger ferry and a buoy in Macau, authorities said.
An Iranian cargo ship sank in UAE waters due to rough weather, while its crew of six was airlifted to safety by a rescue helicopter, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Technically, Sulpicio Lines Inc. ceased to exist after it changed its name.
The MV Doña Paz sank 25 years ago, but the scars on Zosimo de la Rama’s body always remind him of the pain and fear that he endured swimming in flaming waters for hours before he was rescued.
A Colombian cargo ship sank off the country’s Pacific coast, leaving eight people dead, the navy said Saturday. Another 14 people were plucked out of the water.
At least four fishing boats sank during the height of the typhoon in barangay Catarman, Dauis town, Bohol. Every time a storm hits Bohol, fishing boats seek refuge in Catarman bay, but this time the four fishing boats were not able to withstand the big waves caused by the typhoon resulting in the sinking. [...]
Rescuers gave up hope of finding any more survivors after a cargo ship sank in the frigid North Sea off the Dutch coast, saying Thursday they are searching for the bodies of the seven crewmen still missing. That brings the presumed death toll to 11.
Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of seven would-be immigrants from the Mediterranean on Sunday after their boat sank between the Libyan coast and the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing the death toll to 10, the ANSA news agency said.
Italian coastguards retrieved the bodies of three would-be immigrants from the Mediterranean between the Libyan coast and the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight after their boat got into trouble, ANSA news agency reported Sunday.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro on Sunday visited the wake of two Department of Education (DepEd) officials in Romblon and other injured teachers after their motorized boat sank in the waters off the island-province in the aftermath of Tropical Storm “Ofel.”
A FACULTY member of Negros Oriental State University (Norsu) represented the Philippines during an international conference on maritime safety.
Japan’s Coast Guard Sunday saved all 64 Chinese seamen from their burning cargo ship, as the two nations remain locked in an acrimonious dispute over contested islands.
