Disaster
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Maritime News
Indonesia Ferry Disaster Death Toll Rises to 66
The death toll from an Indonesian ship that capsized earlier this month rose to 66 as of Monday, as divers…
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Maritime News
Death Toll in Zimbabwe Ferry Disaster Reaches 94
The casualty count from a ferry accident on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe has risen to 94 people, and search operations are…
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Marine World
Two Slicks Appear in Gulf as Huge Oil Spill Off Oman Threatens Disaster
Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters, satellite imagery and video verified by Reuters show, as tit-for-tat attacks on oil tankers and…
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Marine World
VIKING Pentagon Star provides rapid escape route from the water in disaster scenarios
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has secured its first orders for VIKING Pentagon Star – a new mass rescue device designed to…
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Maritime News
How the MV Estonia Disaster Reshaped Passenger Ship Safety
Maritime safety regulations are often shaped by hard lessons. Few accidents demonstrate this more clearly than the loss of the…
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Maritime News
Chinese-Led South African Naval Exercise Slides into Diplomatic Disaster
The Chinese-led BRICs Exercise “Will for Peace 2026,” now taking place in Cape Town, is turning into a diplomatic disaster for…
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Marine World
Fatal Engine Room Fire on Dredge Stuyvesant: How a Missing Plug and Remote Start Led to Disaster
A deadly engine room fire aboard the dredging vessel Stuyvesant last November has revealed critical lessons about maintenance procedures and machinery startup…
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Port News
Bridge team lapse behind Leeuwin II disaster
Ineffective coordination and monitoring by the crew and harbour pilots on board the containership Maersk Shekou contributed to its high-profile…
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Port News
Total lack of safety culture laid bare in Wakashio disaster
Mauritius has finally published the long-suppressed Court of Investigation report into the 2020 grounding of the Wakashio. The findings are…
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Marine World
Investigation Reveals Shocking Failures in Wakashio Oil Spill Disaster
Five years after the MV Wakashio ran aground on Mauritius’s south-east coast, causing the island nation’s worst maritime environmental disaster,…
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