Titanic wreckage to become Unesco heritage
April 6th, 2012 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, April 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, its wreckage will become underwater cultural heritage protected by the Unesco, under a convention ratified ... Read more...
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Four bodies found aboard sunken ship
February 23rd, 2012 - 2:20 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Feb 23 (IANS/AKI) Four bodies were found Wednesday aboard the cruise ship that sank off Italy's western coast bringing to 21 the number of dead in last month's tragedy.The ... Read more...
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Ship’s sinking: Captain refused to coordinate evacuation (Lead)
January 18th, 2012 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Jan 18 (IANS) A recorded conversation between the captain of a wrecked Italian cruise liner and a port official has revealed that he left the ship before all the ... Read more...
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Five more bodies found on wrecked Italian ship
January 18th, 2012 - 3:26 am ICT by IANS
Moscow/Rome, Jan 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Rescuers found five more bodies Tuesday on the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship, bringing the overall toll to 11, Italy's ANSA news agency said.All the ... Read more...
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‘The Adventures of Tintin’ wins Golden Globe for best animated film
January 16th, 2012 - 9:56 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Jan 16 (IANS) Comic book-inspired "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn" bagged the best animated film trophy at the Golden Globes award ceremony here.The Steven ... Read more...
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Indian workers aboard sunken ship missing
October 22nd, 2011 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Oct 22 (IANS) Seven Indians -- one electrician and six divers -- working on an Iranian vessel are missing since Thursday after it sank off the Persian Gulf, an ... Read more...
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Divers wait for good weather to plug Mumbai oil spill
August 11th, 2011 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) A team of divers from the Oil and Natural Gas Commission Thursday started operations to ascertain the source of oil spill from the sunken cargo vessel ... Read more...
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Divers to attempt plug oil leak from sunken ship
August 10th, 2011 - 11:57 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 10 (IANS) While oil continued to spill and spread from sunken cargo ship M.V. Rak Carrier off Mumbai, the maritime authorities Wednesday decided to requisition a specialised ... Read more...
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Sunken ship spewing less oil, say maritime authorities
August 9th, 2011 - 9:57 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) Oil spill from the sunken cargo ship, M.V. Rak Carrier has reduced though oil patches have been noticed on Mumbai beaches and further down on Alibag ... Read more...
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Mumbai oil spill decreasing, say officials (Lead)
August 8th, 2011 - 11:13 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 8 (IANS) Indian defence and maritime authorities Monday said the oil spill from the sunken ship Rak Carrier has decreased, compared to a day earlier and that ... Read more...
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Oil spill off Mumbai from sunken ship
August 7th, 2011 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 7 (IANS) A cargo vessel which sunk off the Mumbai harbour Thursday has been leaking oil, an official said Sunday."Oil has been observed leaking from the sunken vessel ... Read more...
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Sunken ship’s officials held, released on bail (Lead)
August 6th, 2011 - 8:54 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Within hours of their arrest, a court here Saturday granted bail to two top officials of cargo vessel MT Rak Carrier, which sank off Mumbai harbour ... Read more...
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Police nab officials of sunken ship
August 6th, 2011 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) The captain and the chief engineer of the cargo ship M.T. Rak Carrier, which sank in the Arabian Sea two days ago, were arrested Saturday, Mumbai ... Read more...
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Russian sunken ship toll rises to 120
July 25th, 2011 - 8:23 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 25 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The confirmed toll in the sunken cruise vessel Bulgaria risen to 120 people, after the divers discovered one more body on the riverboat, the Emergencies ... Read more...
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Russia begins lifting sunken ship from Volga
July 22nd, 2011 - 4:11 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 22 (IANS) Russian officials Thursday night began an operation for lifting the ship that sank in the Volga river, killing at least 114 people, a media report said.The ... Read more...
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‘Maximum punishment for captains of vessels passing sinking ship’
July 12th, 2011 - 7:35 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 12 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The captains of two passing vessels who failed to come to the aid of the Bulgaria, which sank in the Volga River with some 200 ... Read more...
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Ring worth $500,000 recovered from sunken ship
June 26th, 2011 - 12:46 pm ICT by IANS
Miami, June 26 (IANS/EFE) An emerald set in a gold ring that was part of the treasure of a 17th-century Spanish ship has been found off the Florida coast, officials ... Read more...
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Hilt of 18th-century pirate Blackbeard’s sword may have been found
January 16th, 2011 - 4:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 16 (ANI): Archaeologists who have been excavating the sunken Queen Anne's Revenge for more than ten years discovered a gilded sword hilt that may have belonged to Blackbeard, the ... Read more...
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USS Emmons Vandalized Secretly, Divers Find Out
September 28th, 2010 - 8:34 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Sep 28, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The USS Emmons was one of the most important warships during the Second World War and before sinking to the depths of sea on April 6, ... Read more...
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World’s oldest champagne found in Baltic Sea
July 18th, 2010 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Swedish diver may have found the world's oldest drinkable sparkling wine when he recovered several bottles of champagne amid the wreckage of a 230-year-old ship in ... Read more...
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Sinking of Peruvian boat leaves twelve dead, 220 rescued alive in the Amazonas River
May 28th, 2010 - 2:15 am ICT by BNO News
IQUITOS, PERU (BNO NEWS) – Twelve bodies were recovered Thursday while around 220 people were rescued alive after a vessel sank in the Amazonas River in Peru, according to local media.The Peruvian ... Read more...
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Close-range external explosion caused sinking of South Korean warship
April 25th, 2010 - 4:31 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr 25 (ANI): South Korea's joint civilian and military investigation team has found in its initial investigations that a "close-range external explosion" might be the cause of a Navy warship's ... Read more...
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Bangladesh ferry accident death toll rises to 71
November 30th, 2009 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Nov 30 (DPA) The toll from a ferry accident in Bangladesh's southern Bhola district rose to 71 Monday after rescuers retrieved more bodies trapped in the sunken vessel, officials said.
"The rescuers ... Read more...
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Oil retrieved from sunken Mongolian ship
November 14th, 2009 - 12:10 am ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Nov 13 (IANS) A US firm hired to pump out oil from a Mongolian flagged ship that sank Sep 9 off the Paradip harbour in Orissa has retrieved all the furnace ... Read more...
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176 tonnes of fuel oil retrieved from sunken ship
October 26th, 2009 - 11:49 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 26 (IANS) A US firm engaged to pump out fuel oil from a Mongolian ship that sank last month off Paradip harbour in Orissa retrieved at least 176 tonnes of ... Read more...
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US firm to start pumping out oil from sunken ship
October 23rd, 2009 - 12:15 am ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 22 (IANS) The US firm, Resolve Marine Group, which has been given the work to pump out oil from the ship MV Black Rose that sank off the Paradip coast ... Read more...
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US firm begins work to pump oil from sunken ship
October 19th, 2009 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 19 (IANS) Experts of a US firm assigned to pump out furnace oil from a ship that sank last month off Paradip harbour in Orissa began work Monday. Their task ... Read more...
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Movie Review : BLUE (2009)
October 16th, 2009 - 12:07 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
BLUE: A BIG dissappointmentRating: 1.5 out of 5*Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, Rahul Dev and Katrina Kaif (Sp. App)Director: Anthony D'SouzaSagar (Dutt) and Aarav (Akshay) are good ... Read more...
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US firm to remove oil from sunken Mongolian ship (Lead)
October 9th, 2009 - 7:58 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 9 (IANS) US-based marine service firm Resolve Marine Group has won the bid to remove oil from a Mongolian vessel that sank off Paradip harbour in Orissa last month.
"The ... Read more...
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Fresh oil from sunken ship blackening Orissa coastline: experts (With Images)
October 6th, 2009 - 3:11 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 6 (IANS) A fresh oil spill, probably from a Mongolian ship that sank last month, has blackened part of the Orissa coastline in an area close to the nesting site ... Read more...
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Expert team to verify fresh spillage from sunken ship
October 5th, 2009 - 5:04 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Oct 5 (IANS) Orissa will Tuesday send a three member expert team to verify media reports about fresh spillage from a ship that had sunk off the Paradip coast last month, ... Read more...
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Central team reaches Paradip to inspect capsized ship
September 26th, 2009 - 5:19 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Sep 26 (IANS) Following reports of minor oil spills, a five-member team of the central shipping ministry Saturday reached Orissa's Paradip port to inspect the ship that sank off its coast ... Read more...
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Oil removal from sunken ship ‘long process’, wildlife body worried (Lead)
September 23rd, 2009 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
By Jatindra DashBhubaneswar, Sep 23 (IANS) A global tender will be floated to pump the stored oil out of a Mongolian ship that sank off Orissa's Paradip port Sep 9, but the ... Read more...
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Paradip Port to float tender to pump oil out of sunken ship
September 23rd, 2009 - 3:59 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Sep 23 (IANS) The Paradip Port in Orissa has decided to float a global tender to pump the stored oil out of a Mongolian ship that sank off its coast Sep ... Read more...
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Oil spill on Orissa coast could be from sunken ship: expert
September 22nd, 2009 - 11:21 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Sep 22 (IANS) A team of experts Tuesday found oil patches along the coast of Orissa's Paradip port and suspected it could have leaked from a ship that sank near the ... Read more...
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