SAN FRANCISCO - British double Olympic sailing medalist Andrew Simpson died Thursday when a Swedish catamaran capsized during America's Cup training on San Francisco Bay, officials said.Simpson, a 36-year-old father of two boys, was trapped underneath the 72-foot catamaran of Swedish team Artemis ...

PARIS DM - With its wings skimming across the water, this super yacht soars above the competition. Its state-of-the-art design means the world’s fastest yacht can clock an amazing 60 miles an hour - and reach 50mph in just ten seconds.The Hydroptere, which uses marine and aeronautic ...

Some 58 Afghan refugees are still missing after the boat taking them to Australia sank in Indonesian waters, while 14 have been rescued by local fishermen, a rescue official said Saturday.The boat, which was believed to carry 72 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, sank in waters off Indonesia's Sunda ...

TOKYO (AFP) - Four fisherman died and another four were missing Friday following a boat fire in waters near islands at the centre of a dispute between Tokyo and Beijing, Japan's coastguard said.Five of the nine-member crew from the 29-ton, South Korea-flagged 3005 Hwang Gum longliner were pulled ...

At least 50 people including children drowned in rough seas when a passenger boat sunk off the Comoros archipelago in the early hours of Tuesday after its engines failed, the country's public prosecutor said. The vessel was ferrying more than 100 people from the capital Moroni to the island of ...

About 110 bodies, including those of 30 children, were found inside the wreck of a Russian cruise ship that sank in the Volga river on Sunday, rescuers said Monday. "A preliminary examination conducted by divers from the Republic of Tatarstan showed that there are about 110 bodies aboard the sunken ...

A boat packed with refugees bound for Saudi Arabia sunk off the Sudanese coast, killing 197 people, Sudanese media linked to the government said on Tuesday. Only three people were rescued, the state-linked news agency Sudanese Media Center said, quoting officials in Port Sudan. A fire broke out ...

Dozens of asylum seekers are feared dead after their boat on Wednesday morning smashed into rocks, and broke apart in rough conditions off Christmas Island of Australia, local media reported.About 70 people were reportedly aboard the boat, including women and children. The asylum seekers are mainly ...

As many as 15 flood-affected people reportedly drowned when a rescue boat carrying 20 flood victims capsized near Dadu-Moru Bridge here in Nowshera-Feroz on Friday. According to details 20 flood affectees were on board the rescue boat that was utilized to shift the flood victims from the inundated ...

At least 17 people reported to died here in Pannu Aqil on Monday, when a rescue boat capsized in floodwater near Pinwari village in the vicinities of district Pannu Aqil, while rescue teams and eyewitnesses taking immediate action rescued six people. According to details a rescue boats that was ...

At least thirty people including 10 women drowned when boat capsized while rescuing flood affectees here in Larkana on Friday. According to media reports, a boat was busy in rescue work in Larkana and shifting the flood affectees to safer places, when the boat lost balance and capsized due to ...

A boat carrying passengers capsized in Nara Canal in Khairpur on Wednesday. The divers have taken 10 bodies out of the water. The boat carrying around 20 persons including women and children was drown in Nara Canal. The divers have retrieved 10 bodies and six survivors from the canal while four ...

At least 50 people, many of them women and children, were feared to have drowned after an overloaded boat capsized in eastern India, officials said Tuesday. Passengers were returning from a festival when the boat overturned in a river in the impoverished state of Bihar, local district magistrate ...

An overloaded sightseeing boat carrying dozens of Bulgarian tourists sank Saturday in a lake on Macedonia's western border, and 15 people drowned, officials said. The vessel, called the Ilinden, sank rapidly in just six meters (20 feet) of water in Lake Ohrid, police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said. ...

At least 10 people died when a boat carrying mostly Bulgarian tourists sank on Lake Ohrid in southwest Macedonia on Saturday, the government said. The Iliden, was carrying at least 50 passengers when it sank at around 11 am (1500 PST), said a police source who declined to be named. No reason was ...

Three people were killed when a boat capsized in Kahuta nullah on Thursday. At least 40 people were onboard when a boat capsized in RLK Tangi Dam near Khadot area. Rescue operation is underway after the incident and three bodies have been recovered so far. The divers of Pakistan Navy are carrying ...

At least five people were drowned in a river boat accident that left some 100 missing in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said Saturday. Jean-Bosco Isokumu, commander of a naval unit at Mbandaka, capital of Equateur province, said the boat sank early Friday on the river Ruki, ...

Twelve Indonesians drowned early Tuesday after a wooden boat carrying dozens of suspected illegal migrants capsized off the coast of Malaysia, maritime officials said. The boat, believed to be carrying about 150 people, sank 1.2 nautical miles off Port Klang on the west coast en route to ...

A Ukrainian ship sank early Saturday off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast in bad weather, and all the crew members were still missing, the Bulgarian transport ministry said. Only an empty lifeboat had been found at the scene off Cape Emine where the 5,000-tonne Tolstoy went down, the ministry said. The ...