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March 2008 – The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast, were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206, held in New Orleans.
By that time, 33 percent of the nation's residents had been fully vaccinated against infection. In January 2022, a group of Kiribati citizens who had been living and travelling abroad as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the pandemic began returned to Kiribati on a chartered plane. Despite negative tests for ...
Kiribati (/ ˈ k ɪr ɪ b æ s / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese:), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11] [12] [3] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa atoll.
At least 90 people to date have been confirmed, over 100 others have been listed as missing and 39 survivors rescued. 190 2018 Indonesia: Sinking of MV Sinar Bangun – On 18 June in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, during its trip from Simanindo Harbour in Samosir Island to Tiga Ras Harbour in Simalungun Regency.
The 2009 Kiribati ferry accident was the sinking, on 13 July 2009, of an inter-island ferry in the south Pacific nation of Kiribati. [1] The accident is believed to have killed 33 of the ship's 55 passengers and crew. [1] The ferry was a 56-foot-long (17 m) double-hulled wood catamaran en route between Tarawa and the outlying island of Maiana. [1]
The tug was run down and sunk by the schooner she was towing, Three Sisters ( United States), in the East River off New York City, sinking in 60 feet (18 m) of water. [ 6 ] 2 June
Of the 407 crewmen and passengers, 15 passengers and 10 crewmen died in the sinking. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The survivors were rescued by the patrol boats USS PC-566 and USS SC-19 , and the tug Underwriter , and they were transported without incident to Venice, Louisiana .
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1900 Ship State Description Townsend United States During a voyage in Southeast Alaska from Skagway to Haines Mission with eight passengers, a crew of 20, and no cargo aboard, the 450-gross register ton, 125-foot (38 m) steamer was wrecked on rocks in Lynn Canal halfway between Haines Mission and Battery Point after her engine failed during a gale in 22 fathoms ...