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On June 28, 2026, a charter fishing boat with 10 people aboard sank in the Strait of Georgia off the coast of Richmond, B.C. Six people, including the boat’s 22-year-old captain, remain missing and are presumed dead. Four others were initially pulled from the water but one among them later …
Read More »Sinking of HMCS Otter in WW II Halifax remembered as ‘dramatic tale of tension and heroics’
When HMCS Otter patrolled the waters outside Halifax harbour on March 26, 1941, the Allied war effort was not going well. It was a full three years before D-Day, the Allied invasion of western Europe. For convoys heading overseas, German U-boats regularly picked off vessels carrying troops and much-needed supplies …
Read More »In the shadow of the Himalayas, this town is sinking, a casualty of the past and the present
It was the middle of the night when the call from a family friend came, warning Abhishek Nautiyal and his family that they had to immediately leave their home in Joshimath, a small Himalayan mountain town in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. The message was simple: Get out — …
Read More »Young orcas ram boats off Portugal's coast, sinking one
Two boats were rammed by a pod of young orcas recently off the coast of Portugal. One of the boats sank. Experts say it was play behaviour, but the whales caused quite the fright. News Source link
Read More »Transport Canada must be ‘more vigilant,’ relatives say two years after N.S. sinking
Geno Francis loved most things about fishing on the high seas, but his son says that in his final year, fear overshadowed that passion. “My father said, ‘After this trip, this was it,’ because it was quite dangerous,” Michael Francis said during a recent interview at his home in Milton, …
Read More »This summer, Ontario’s most unusual roadside tourist attraction looks to prove it’s no sinking ship
From the outside, at nearly 90 metres long and eight metres wide, HMCS Ojibwa is huge. Inside, however, it becomes abundantly clear there is simply no such thing as social distancing on a submarine. “Compartment sizes basically closed us during most of COVID,” said Ian Raven, director of the Elgin Military Museum and HMCS Ojibwa. …
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