The Pigeon Express
A court in Mauritius hands 20-month jail sentence to the captain and first mate of a freighter that crashed into a coral reef last year, causing the Indian Ocean archipelago’s worst environmental disaster. Magistrate Ida Dookhy Rambarrun said on Monday the court had taken into consideration “the fact that both defendants pleaded guilty and apologised”. […]
A woman fell off a Carnival Cruise Line ship balcony and into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday, spurring an international search effort. The incident, which happened shortly after 3am aboard a Carnival Miracle ship near Ensenada, Mexico, was captured on security video, the US Coast Guard said. Passengers were notified shortly after, said Josh Zufelt, […]
A crew member’s error in calculating the weight of cargo on a ship loaded with thousands of cars most likely caused the vessel to capsize off the east coast of the US. The South Korean freighter, Golden Ray, capsized in September 2019, and its wreck is still partially in situ in the waters off the […]
An environmental disaster off the coast of Sri Lanka got worse after a large container ship carrying chemicals and plastic caught fire, sank and could now begin an ‘almost inevitable’ oil spill making it one of Sri Lanka’s worst-ever marine disasters. The MV X-Press Pearl has nearly 350 tonnes of oil in its fuel tanks. […]
A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals is sinking off Sri Lanka’s west coast, the country’s government and navy said, in one of Sri Lanka’s worst-ever marine disasters. The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl was carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, along with other chemicals and cosmetics that were loaded at the port […]
Ocean liner Titanic that made its ill-fated maiden voyage more than a century ago will be brought back to life at a landlocked Chinese theme park where tourists can soon splash out for a night on a full-scale replica. The project’s main backer was inspired to recreate the world’s most infamous cruise liner by the […]
A cruise liner was photographed as if it’s floating in mid-air in the latest such sighting of a bizarre optical illusion. The Anthem of the Seas cruise liner was spotted as if hovering above the sea off the coast of Bournemouth, Dorset, on Wednesday this week. A trick of the light made it appear suspended in […]