Death boat 'inherently unstable'
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Poor safety equipment and an unqualified crew contributed to the deaths of nine Britons when a boat capsized in Bahrain.
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Britain's seas are in crisis, with key species in serious decline, according to a report by the WWF.
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The question in your editorial ("The fading of Pearl Harbor," Dec. 7) about what we, the people, would do in case of another attack is not only an excellent one but very troubling. The "train" is coming, no doubt. The crazies are smelling blood.
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CAN THO, Vietnam  - A boat capsized in heavy winds on a river in northern Vietnam, killing 16 people, an official said Saturday.
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The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry's swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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Two cargo boats sank in Thailand's Mekong River after the water level dropped sharply and exposed hazardous reefs.  The first boat, a Lao vessel, hit a reef and capsized, killing a man and his son, the Bangkok Post reported Monday.
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The full scale of the catastrophe around the shores of the Indian Ocean is only slowly emerging. The death toll rises by tens of thousands each day, with the prospect that it could redouble
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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The husband's story was extraordinary: He and his wife spent the afternoon cruising the bay on their watercraft before becoming bogged down in thick offshore mud. The vessel caught fire and sank, the couple was stranded for hours, and the wife was dead the next morning.
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A grand jury investigating the death of 20 tourists when a boat capsized on a New York state lake recommended stiffer penalties for safety violations.  Failing to provide enough crew members should be a misdemeanor, not a violation, the grand jury said in a report released Thursday.
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Is a sea change about to occur? Don't count on it.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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A fresh attempt to rescue an injured ship's captain is under way, after being abandoned in "extreme" conditions.
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Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham raised the possibility Monday that the controversial submarine program could be abandoned in the wake of a submarine tragedy, according to a Canadian Press report.
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Events of the past few weeks have shown that leaks tend to afflict ships that arenÂt seaworthy to begin with, and tend to bring out the panicky worst in people.