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Off Wash. coast: crew puts out fishing vessel fire
(AP-Seattle Times) SEATTLE —The crew aboard a 314-foot fishing vessel off the Washington coast managed to extinguish an engine room fire originally reported as uncontrolled, the Coast Guard said Monday. READ MORE
Post to TwitterFBI: Agents fell to deaths training off Va. coast during ‘maritime counterterrorism exercise’
(Washington Post) NORFOLK, Va. — Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a “maritime counterterrorism exercise,” an agency spokeswoman said Monday night. READ MORE
Rohingya boats sink off west Burma - many missing
(BBC) - Several boats carrying Rohingya Muslims have capsized off western Burma leaving many people missing, aid agencies say. The boats, said to be carrying about 100 passengers, were evacuating people ahead of powerful Cyclone Mahasen. READ MORE2 cruise line passengers missing off coast of eastern Australia
(CNN) -- Authorities launched a search Thursday after two passengers went missing overnight off Australia's eastern coast.
The 30-year-old man and 26-year-old woman were reported missing when the Carnival Cruise ship Spirit docked in Sydney on Thursday morning, CNN affiliate Seven Network reported. The first clue came when they didn't claim their luggage. READ MOREKiribati fishermen survive a month adrift in Pacific
(AFP) WELLINGTON — Two fishermen from Kiribati were rescued after surviving almost four weeks adrift in the Pacific, surviving on raw fish and rain water, a report said Wednesday. READ MORE
UPDATE 3-Six killed, 3 missing after ship hits tower in Italian port
GENOA, May 8 (Reuters) - Six people were killed and three are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the northern Italian port of Genoa, rescuers said on Wednesday. READ MORE
Two dead, eight missing after cargo ships collide off Greece
(EuroNews) Two people drowned and eight are missing after two cargo ships collided off southwestern Greece early on Monday, the Greek coastguard said. READ MORECrews Raise Sunken Boat of Missing Man
(NBC Philadelphia) Crews raised a tow boat that sank near the Great Egg Harbor Inlet last week as the search continues for the missing captain. READ MORE
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British sailor missing in Pacific Ocean
(The Telegraph) A British sailor is missing in the Pacific Ocean after falling from his yacht almost 500 miles from land. READ MORE
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Captains Charged in Hong Kong Boat Collision That Killed 39
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong police on Thursday filed manslaughter charges against the captains of two boats that collided off Lamma Island in October, an accident that took the lives of 39 people in the city’s deadliest maritime disaster in more than four decades. READ MORE
