Posts Tagged ‘ship’
Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship (AP)
AP – Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to stare down death from the bridge, as the lights go out and the water rises, until everyone else has made it to safety?
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Woman with ship captain defends his actions (AP)
AP – A young Moldovan woman who says she was with the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it rammed into a Tuscan reef emerged as a potential new witness Thursday in the investigation into the captain’s actions that night.
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3 victims named from stricken Italian cruise ship (AP)
AP – Divers restarted the search Thursday for 21 people still missing after a cruise ship crashed into the rocky Tuscan coast, but a forecast of rough seas added uncertainty to the operation and to plans to begin pumping fuel from the stranded vessel.
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Divers resume search for 21 missing from ship (AP)
AP – Divers resumed the search Thursday for 21 people still missing after a cruise ship capsized off the Tuscan coast, but rough seas forecast for later in the day added an element of uncertainty to the operation and plans to begin pumping fuel from the stranded vessel.
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Tales emerge of missing and dead in ship disaster (AP)
AP – An Italian dad and his 5-year-old daughter. A retired American couple treating themselves after putting four children through college. A Hungarian musician who helped crying children into lifejackets, then disappeared while trying to retrieve his beloved violin from his cabin.
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German woman is alive, cruise ship missing at 21 (AP)
AP – Officials say a German woman who was listed among the missing from the cruise ship grounding off Italy has been located alive in Germany, bringing the number of people still unaccounted for to 21.
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Hungarian cruise ship victim was crew violinist (AP)
AP – Hungary’s foreign ministry says one of the bodies recovered from the wreck of the cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany was a Hungarian man, a musician working aboard the ship.
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