Tag: shipwrecks
“We can no longer witness the tragedies of shipwrecks caused by the fanaticism of indifference”
Pope Francis is preparing to meet religious leaders at the Memorial dedicated to sailors and migrants lost at sea, in Marseille, on September 22, 2023. PAVEL GOLOVKIN / AP The…
Italy: at least 30 migrants missing after two shipwrecks
About 28 passengers from one of the boats and three from the second were lost at sea after they sank on Saturday due to bad weather conditions, IOM said. The…
Response to freighter fire: Rules for e-car transport at sea are to be tightened
Response to Freighter Fire Rules for e-car transport at sea are to be tightened mbo/dpa 8/1/2023 4:13 am The fire on the huge car freighter “Fremantle Highway” in the North…
UN wants ‘urgent and decisive’ action to avoid further migrant shipwrecks
The UN has called for rapid investigations and “urgent and decisive” measures to avoid new tragedies such as the sinking of a boat loaded with migrants off the coast of…
Greece: 78 migrants drowned in one of the worst shipwrecks
78 migrants drowned in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in the sinking in the south-west of Greece of a boat carrying “hundreds” of migrants, one of the worst disasters…
Off the Tunisian coast, shipwrecks of migrants follow one another
Illegal migrants during an operation carried out by the Tunisian national guard, off the city of Sfax, in southern Tunisia, on October 28, 2022. YASSINE GAIDI / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA…
Tunisia: at least 29 migrants drowned in three shipwrecks
At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have drowned in the sinking of three boats off Tunisia, the latest in a series of tragedies in the Mediterranean. Twenty-nine bodies…
Three 17th century shipwrecks authenticated in the Channel
Discovered in 1990, the three wrecks identified off Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue belonged to a fleet of Louis XIV destroyed during a battle in 1692. Three wrecks of a fleet of Louis XIV…
Shipwrecks: Life after the sinking
Thus, in the tiny boarding crews, not only destructive forces are at work. After all, microbes not only break down iron, but also boost a whole range of other chemical…
“Vsevolod Bobrov” damaged?: Ukraine: Russian supply ship set on fire
“Vsevolod Bobrov” damaged? Ukraine: Russian supply ship set on fire 05/13/2022, 10:55 am According to Ukrainian sources, a Russian supply ship was hit by a rocket not far from Snake…
Successive shipwrecks off Greece: at least 30 migrants died
Migrants, the massacrecase The slaughter off the Greek islands continues to continue. In total, the European country has recorded three shipwrecks since Wednesday. The Greek coast guard is on the…
At least fourteen dead in two shipwrecks of migrant boats in Greece
Three people perished Friday, December 25 in the sinking of a boat with migrants on board in the Aegean Sea, a few hours after a first sinking which left eleven…