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Haiti's economic and political situation at the time allowed their ferry system to operate with no regulations, which contributed to the ship's large crowd size. When a heavy rainstorm hit the ship halfway through its journey, the ship started to pitch and roll, and the crowd panicked, going to one side of the ship. This caused the ship to ...
SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners.Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Puerto Rico, the vessel was renamed Northern Lights in 1991 and, finally, El Faro in 2006.
A container ship Zeran arrived in Catania with 197 people; there were five dead bodies. According to Save the Children 40 other immigrants lost their lives at sea. [ 40 ] In Crotone the Panamanian tanker Prince I brought 250 migrants rescued to the Channel of Sicily , but also the bodies of three others, two women and a man, recovered at sea ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Violence permeates every fiber of Haitian society. It used to linger on the outskirts of the capital, targeting the poorest, but now everyone — from street vendors ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- An underwater explorer said Tuesday that he may have found the long-sought wreckage of one of Christopher Columbus' original ships off northern Haiti, but the find is ...
The body of the the ship’s cook, identified as Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, was recovered Monday. On Wednesday, NBC News witnessed what appeared to be at least three body bags ...
The Marjorie C is a con-ro, a hybrid ro-ro with the ability to carry containerized cargo as well as vehicles. The ship can carry 1,200 vehicles and 1,400 TEUs of containers. The ship's ports of call include Honolulu and Los Angeles, usually carrying 30 percent cars, 10 percent oversized items, and 60 percent containers.
Divers on Wednesday recovered the bodies of two of the workers. All of the nearly two dozen crew members from the Dali were accounted for after the accident, with one taken to a hospital with ...