41 reportedly dead after migrant boat sinks off Italian island
After a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean last week, 41 people reportedly died, survivors told local Italian media on Wednesday.
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After a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean last week, 41 people reportedly died, survivors told local Italian media on Wednesday.
Bloomsbury USA president Adrienne Vaughan was reportedly thrown from a motorboat in the crash.
Troopers said they arrested the driver on charges of boating while intoxicated.
Tim Shaddock told Australian TV he just needed "rest and good food, because I have been alone at sea a long time," after he was spotted by a helicopter.
One official said the type of old fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean, this one carrying as many as 750 people, are like "floating coffins."
Video of the captain's latest encounters shows orcas "biting off both rudders" of his yacht, with one of the whales seen swimming around with a piece of the rudder in its mouth.
The bodies of Brandi Tyau, Danielle Agcaoili and Maury Agcaoili have been found, but Robert Solis and boat captain Morgan Robidou are still missing.
A local official said the kids were trying to cross a river to collect firewood when their over-crowded boat capsized.
The three were last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán. They were en route to San Diego.
A 39-year-old man from West Melbourne died after lightning struck his boat along the Florida coast near Orlando, officials said this week.
A local politician said the 250-foot research vessel outfitted by Microsoft's co-founder was "dislodged from its holding in strong winds."
At least 64 people, including eight children, died when their overcrowded wooden boat slammed into shoals just a few hundred yards off Italy's coast.
A rescue official vowed to keep up the search, but said finding more survivors was unlikely as the "sea conditions are too difficult."
The 25-year-old was remembered as a beloved teammate whose "joyous approach to life touched everyone he met."
The sailboat, without power or fuel, was found more than 200 miles off Delaware's coast.
The small boat was apparently full of migrants trying to make the well-trodden, but extremely risky English Channel crossing from mainland Europe to Britain.
The 9-year-old boy went missing during a boat trip with family members on Saturday, authorities said.
The group was found about 16 miles southwest of San Diego in a broken motorboat, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
More than 180 people were rescued from an overloaded sailboat off Rodriguez Key, the Coast Guard said.
An emergency management official said the water level in the Niger River was "very high and too risky for a smooth search and rescue operation."
Investigators said the 24-foot boat, which was carrying at least 12 people, was likely overloaded for its size, CBS New York reports.
Three others are in critical condition, officials said.