Accidents - maritime

India festival boat capsize kills 13 children

Rescue personnel conducting a search operation for the missing after a boat capsized in Ganga river in Vaishali district, in India’s Bihar state, on Oct 14.

Two dead, 11 rescued after fire on board ship in Black Sea, Romania says

Firefighters in a rescue operation following a maritime incident involving a fire aboard a vessel outside Romania’s territorial waters on Oct 5.

US Coast Guard suspends search for people on crashed medical aircraft

The US Coast Guard searching for people on Oct 3 after it found debris from a medical transport aircraft off the shore of Massachusetts’ Nantucket island.

‘Loud thud’: Sperm whale sinks yacht in South Pacific

This handout image taken on Sept 26 shows a yacht sinking after a sperm whale struck and cracked the hull in the remote South Pacific.

Indonesia arrests captain of capsized ferry, police say

The Virgo Transport 8 ferry was carrying 243 people when it capsized in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sept 13.

Indonesia ferry death toll hits 71 as search enters 16th day

Rescuers carrying a body recovered from the Virgo Transport 8 ferry, which capsized on Sept 13, after arriving at Sjamsudin Noor air base in Banjarbaru, Indonesia, on Sept 28.

Death toll from Indonesia ferry sinking jumps to 64

Rescuers in protective suits move the body of a victim recovered from the Virgo Transport 8 ferry on Sept 23.

Death toll from capsized Indonesian ship climbs as search widens for 107 missing

Coast guard and Navy personnel recovered 14 bodies from inside the ship over the past three days.

MPA probing collision between Chinese fishing vessel and Panama-flagged ship in S’pore waters

Crew members on the smaller Chinese fishing vessel hold on to railings as the ship appears to tilt significantly to its side.

MPA coordinates rescue of 25 crew members from container vessel off Vietnam’s coast

The rescue took place within Singapore’s maritime search and rescue region, about 300km east of Vietnam.

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