Tag: vessel sinks

Almost three months after the fatal sinking of the lifting boat 'Seacor Power', salvage teams managed to raise the wreck's bow section to the surface of the water and transported it by barge on Saturday to the Modern American Recycling Services, Inc. facility in Houma, the USCG announced. 

In its transportation statistics 2020, TSB Canada recorded a total of 262 marine accidents (resulting directly from the operation of a ship), down from the 2019 total of 267 and below the 10-year average of 289. In 2020, the proportion of shipping accidents was 84% of marine accidents, comparable to the previous 10-year average of 82%.

At least seven are dead and 11 people are missing after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Bali, Indonesia, amid rough seas, authorities informed Wednesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board issued seven safety recommendations after the fatal sinking of the fishing vessel Scandies Rose in December 2019. 

The insurers of the X-Press Pearl, the container ship which sustained fire and sank off Sri Lanka in early June causing major pollution, have agreed to pay approximately Rs 720 Million US ($3.6 million) as compensation to the Sri Lankan fishermen affected by the disaster.

Nine crew members of tugboat that was sinking in the Bay of Bengal, were saved by the Indian Coast Guard, on June 23.

San Diego Border Patrol agents introduced their new Marine Unit after the sinking of a smuggling vessel off San Diego in May.

Following the sinking accident of the X-Press Pearl container vessel, IMO is closely monitoring the situation.

Divers managed to retrieve the black box from X-Press Pearl, on June 6, that has sank of Sri Lanka.

The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and sank last week in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances.