Dive recovers Cromwell's sailor
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A sailor from a sunken ship belonging to Oliver Cromwell's navy had the upper body of a trapeze artist but bowed legs, his recovered skeleton shows.
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HALIFAX (CP) - After a harrowing ordeal on the North Atlantic, about half the crew of HMCS Chicoutimi returned home Friday night, 10 days after a fire aboard their second-hand submarine claimed the life of a crew member.
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A RECOVERY tug equipped with divers and airbags was last night on its way to a rendezvous with the upside-down 98-foot yacht Skandia, which was abandoned by her crew on Tuesday and left drifting unmanned in the Tasman Sea.
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Three sailors were injured yesterday after fire broke out on a submarine sold by the Royal Navy to Canada. Chicoutimi had left Faslane in Scotland on Monday after a lengthy refit as part of the sale of four submarines.
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On a day of shifting winds and swelling waves, the challenger from New Zealand took the lead in the America's Cup yesterday in a classic race in which it beat defending champion Alinghi and nearly lost a crew member overboard.
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Shortly after a dramatic rescue, in which the British solo sailor Mike Golding pulled his fellow racer Alex Thomson from a life raft on the Southern Ocean early yesterday morning, the two encountered another perilous situation when the top of Goldingâs mast broke in two places.
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ST-GEORGES-DE-CLARENCEVILLE, Que. (CP) - Provincial police divers recovered the bodies of two men whose snowmobile plunged into an ice-covered lake on Wednesday.
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An Irish student miraculously escaped serious injury in a 30-metre fall from a suspension footbridge into the river below.
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British sailor Alex Thomson has been rescued by a rival competitor after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean while taking part in the Five Oceans round-the-world race.
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A birdie-eagle finish had Colin Montgomerie smiling yet again when he returned to the European Tour after his Ryder Cup heroics. Montgomerie was seven shots adrift of the first-round leaders in The Heritage
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Sublimity claims a surprise victory in the Champion Hurdle after holding off fellow Irish challengers Brave Inca and Hardy Eustace.
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A major rescue operation begins after a yacht capsizes in the English Channel, with one crew member still missing.
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A Canadian submarine, which sent a distress signal out yesterday, is now being rescued by the UK&#39;s Royal Navy and isn&#39;t at risk, a spokeswoman for the British Ministry of Defense, who
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Five sailors were rescued yesterday after surviving for seven days adrift in a life raft in storm-tossed seas. The group, including two Britons, had run out of supplies of food and water.
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Scotland&#39;s John Higgins rebounded from a run of bad luck and setbacks to reach the final of the Euro-Asia Master Challenge here Saturday.
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The wreck of a 17th-century ship found preserved in a sandbar in southern Ireland five years ago could well be the navy flagship of England ruler Oliver Cromwell, according to a Irish government archaeologist.
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A British woman who attempted to row across the Pacific Ocean alone has been rescued after her boat capsized several times amid high waves and gale-force winds, she said on Friday.