At the news conference on Saturday, the authorities were asked why the captain, James Cutfield, an experienced sailor, left the sinking boat while some passengers were still on board.
Water pouring into open hatches or doors could have contributed to the sinking, experts say, but that on its own may not account for the speed at which such a large boat vanished underwater.
at about 3:36 p.m., the Dover Police Department got an emergency call from an individual in Albania who said they needed help because their brother's boat was sinking into the English Channel off ...
Yet that's exactly what happened late last month when an Albanian man called about his brother's sinking boat, located in the English Channel. Thanks in part to 911 operators MacKenzie Atkinson ...
“The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors,” Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the Italian Sea Group, told Reuters of the Bayesian sinking Monday, killing seven of the 22 onboard.
The 911 caller was frantic. His brother's boat was sinking in the English Channel and he was trying to reach emergency responders in Dover, England. The sun had set nearly 45 minutes earlier ...
Fifteen of the 22 people who were on board were rescued from the boat. The vessel's cook - understood to be Recaldo Thomas - is confirmed to have died and his body was recovered the same day the ...
Authorities investigating the sinking of a superyacht off the Sicilian ... with the body of Mike Lynch at the back of the boat, on Aug. 22, 2024, three days after the British-flagged luxury ...
But on a boat of this size, open hatches alone would likely not have been enough to make the Bayesian sink, experts say. There are also other entry points for water around the boat known as "down ...
The Kumarakom Town Boat Club (KTBC) had poured weeks of sweat and sacrifice to arrive at this moment, preparing for the ultimate showdown—the Nehru Trophy Boat Race (NTBR). At 3 p.m., the calm ...
This resulted in water entering the boat, ultimately causing it to sink. A nearby boat, the Sir Robert, managed to come away from the incident without any damage. Its captain, Karsten Bornerhas ...