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Maritime Accidents

Baltimore Key Bridge: How a domino effect brought it down in seconds

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world's third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco river.

Hong Kong: river trade vessels involved in spate of smuggling cases

Over the last two weeks Hong Kong Customs has successfully thwarted smugglers attempts to transport large batches of goods into Macau and the Mainland from Hong Kong

Three underwater data cables through the Red Sea are cut amid Houthi rebel attacks in the area

Subsea cables can be cut by anchors, including those dropped from ships that are disabled in attacks. A drifting ship with its anchor scraping the sea could be the culprit.

Icebreaker Ermak catches fire in Russia’s St. Petersburg port

The fire started on the first and second decks.

Turkish ship with 12 crew missing in Black Sea

Authorities have lost contact with Turkish vessel in what is just one of several casualties caused by severe weather

Luxury ship charging $33,000 a person awaits rescue in Greenland’s Arctic

A luxury cruise ship carrying more than 200 people — primarily Australians — is stuck in remote northeastern Greenland after two failed attempts to free it from the muddy seabed.

SMIT Salvage successfully transfers all oil from decaying FSO Safer to safe modern tanker

Boskalis announces that subsidiary SMIT Salvage has removed all oil from the FSO Safer, located off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea.

Dutch authorities delay plan to tow burning cargo ship

Southwesterly winds mean it's not yet possible to safely tow the ship further away from the environmentally sensitive location it is in now. It is carrying over 3,780 vehicles, including some 500 electric cars.

Ocean Gate statement lost Titanic tour sub crew

OceanGate said in a statement Thursday that all five passengers of its Titan submersible that went missing Sunday during a visit to the 1912 wreck of the Titanic are believed to be dead.

Gas leak at Melkøya stopped

The gas leak that occurred at the Hammerfest LNG plant at Melkøya on 31 May has been stopped and normalisation is under way.

Ukraine-bound cargo ship sinks off Turkish coast

A Guinea-Bissau flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board sank off Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast on Wednesday, killing at least three of them.

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