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Saturday, 20 February 2010 12:47 |
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 Students safe after capsizing of N.S.-based ship
Dozens of students travelling aboard a Nova Scotia-based ship that sank off the coast of Brazil Thursday are safe and suffered no serious injuries in the capsizing, officials from the school that organized the trip said Friday.
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Sunday, 27 December 2009 21:07 |
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 A Greek cargo ship damaged by a fire that killed nine crew members in the Caribbean is being towed to Houston for repairs, Venezuelan authorities said Saturday.
Officials initially said the Aegean Wind would be taken to Venezuela's Margarita Island. But Adm. Carlos Maximo Aniasi Turchio, the navy commander, said the Greek government authorized the ship to be towed to the Texas port, its original destination.
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Friday, 25 December 2009 06:30 |
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 Deep-sea divers are searching for a sunken ferry and 24 missing people after it collided with another vessel and went down on Christmas Eve.
Search-and-rescue teams, backed by six government ships and three aircraft, have combed a 20-nautical-mile radius of Manila Bay since Thursday, but the ferry has yet to be located, the head of the Philippine coast guard said.
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 06:43 |
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 The U.S. Coast Guard released its top 11 video compilation for 2009.
The top 11 video compilation (presented in no particular order) is available for viewing and downloading from the Coast Guard Visual Information site at: http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=731355
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Monday, 21 December 2009 06:34 |
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 A major rescue operation is under way after a ship carrying 83 passengers and crew and a cargo of livestock sank off the north Lebanese coast in a storm.
The Panamanian-flagged Danny F II capsized 11 nautical miles off Tripoli after sending a distress signal.
At least 25 survivors from the vessel - sailing from Uruguay to the Syrian port of Tartous - have been picked up, officials said.
High seas, strong winds and severe rain are hampering the rescue effort.
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