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Cruise Ship Costa Concordia Sinks off Italian Coast [VIDEO, AIS Track]

By On January 14, 2012

Upon departure from the port of a Giglio, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy, the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef, tearing a 50 meter-long gash in [...]

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Cruiseship COSTA CONCORDIA Sinks

By On January 14, 2012

UPDATE: The captain of the cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA has been arrested by Italian police as an investigation into Friday night’s grounding is launched.  Read: Updated: Cruise Ship Costa Concordia [...]

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Holy Ship! MSC Runs Fatboy Slim And Music Fans Aground

By On January 11, 2012

Early this week five tug boats were called out from Freeport Bahamas to pull the 93,300-ton cruise ship MSC Poesia from a reef just two miles from the port. Passengers boarded [...]

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Incident Video of The Week – TK Bremen Grounded in France

By On December 16, 2011

The Maltese-flagged TK Bremen, a cargo ship traveling along Northwest coast of France, ran aground Friday in southern Brittany in high winds and heavy seas.  The vessel reportedly leaked over [...]

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MV Rena… “The worst environmental maritime disaster in New Zealand” – Prime Minister

By On October 11, 2011

By Lucy Craymer And Rebecca Howard, Wall Street Journal WELLINGTON—Oil spilling from a cargo vessel stranded off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island is the country’s worst environmental maritime disaster, [...]

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Oil Slick From Containership Reaches New Zealand Beach, Deteriorating Weather Threatens Salvage

By On October 9, 2011

By Lucy Craymer, Wall Street Journal WELLINGTON—Oil from the damaged cargo vessel MV Rena has started to wash up on a popular beach on the east coast of New Zealand’s [...]

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Heavy seas claim four lives after cargo ship runs aground off Taiwan

By On October 3, 2011

TAIPEI—Four crew members died Monday and six were missing after a cargo vessel ran aground in heavy seas off the northern Taiwanese coast, the coast guard said. An additional 11 sailors were [...]

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