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  • 8
    Feb
    2013
    10:16am, EST

    Despair as ferry capsizes with up to 100 aboard in Bangladesh

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    A man mourns the loss of a relative after a ferry accident in Munshiganj, Bangladesh, on Feb. 8, 2013.

    Published at 10:14 a.m. ET: DHAKA, Bangladesh — At least two people died and dozens were rescued after a passenger ferry collided with another ship and capsized Friday on a river in central Bangladesh, dumping as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses said.

    Police said the ferry went down on the Meghna River in Munshiganj district, 20 miles south of the capital, Dhaka. By Friday evening, rescuers had recovered the bodies of a child and a woman.

    There was confusion over the number of passengers on board the ferry at the time of the accident. Relatives and neighbors at the scene said some people were missing, but authorities would not provide an official list of those who were unaccounted for. Read the full story.

    -- The Associated Press

    A.M. Ahad / AP

    Rescue workers carry the body of a victim ashore on the banks of the Meghna River at Munshiganj on Feb. 8, 2013.

    Khurshed Rinku / Reuters

    Rescue workers carry the body of a victim after a ferry sank in Munshiganj on Feb. 8, 2013.

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    People in the U.S. complain about the government establishing regulations surrounding just about everything, well take a look at these pictures and thank your government because they do it to prevent these types of tragedies.

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  • 9
    Jan
    2013
    2:01pm, EST

    Ferry crash injures dozens of commuters in NYC

    Mark Lennihan / AP

    Victims of the Seastreak Wall Street ferry accident are aided by rescue personnel, on Jan. 9 in New York.

    Spencer Platt / Getty Images

    An injured person is carried to a waiting ambulance following an early morning ferry accident during rush hour in Lower Manhattan on Jan. 9 in New York City.

    By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News

      A commuter ferry packed with more than 300 people crashed into a dock in Lower Manhattan early Wednesday, injuring 57 people, at least two critically, officials said. Nine people were also in serious condition.

      The ferry, which originated from New Jersey around 8 a.m. and had 326 people aboard, slammed into the dock during the height of rush hour, tossing people from their seats and down stairs.

     "There was a jolt when that occurred, throwing the people forward into their seats and the walls," Seastreak President James Barker told NBC 4 New York.

    Read the full story.

    Bebeto Matthews / AP

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg surveys the damage to a passenger ferry after it crashed on Jan. 9 in New York. At least 57 people were injured, two critically, when a commuter ferry struck a dock in New York City's financial district, ripping open a right-side front corner.

    Richard Drew / AP

    Passengers from the Seastreak Wall Street ferry wait to be taken to ambulances, in New York, on Jan. 9.

    Mark Lennihan / AP

    The Seastreak Wall Street ferry is docked in front of the Brooklyn Bridge, left, and Manhattan Bridge, right, following an accident, on Jan. 9 in New York.

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    Glad no one seriously hurt or died. Those that were injured will feel much better after the lawsuits are settled.

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  • 28
    Oct
    2012
    10:36am, EDT

    Claude Paris / AP

    Ferry breaks moorings, runs into dock during high winds in France

    People watch the ferry "Napoleon Bonaparte" of the Société Nationale Corse Mediterranee (SNCM), listing in the port of Marseille, Oct. 28. The ferry broke its moorings due to gusts of wind blowing across the South of France, before running aground against a dock, causing a breach in the hull and flooding the ship causing it to list.

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    That's a "ferry"? Are you kidding? It looks like a cruise ship. I get an uneasy feeling whenever I see media images of these humongous, top-heavy vessels where there is no deck space amidships, the superstructure merges with the tumblehome, and there is way too much "sail" area. How could you handle …

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  • 2
    Oct
    2012
    8:28am, EDT

    Mourning begins as bodies are recovered from Hong Kong ferry crash

    Vincent Yu / AP

    Relatives of the victims throw paper money Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 as they pay tribute to the ill-fated people aboard a boat that sank near Lamma Island, off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island. The boat packed with revelers on a long holiday weekend collided with a ferry and sank on Monday night.

    Kin Cheung / AP

    Workers look at the salvaged Lamma IV boat which sank the previous night.

    Lam Yik Fei / Getty Images

    Police and rescue officers carry the body of a deceased passenger at the Marine Police Base in Aberdeen.

    Jerome Favre / EPA

    A crane on a floating barge operates to lift the Lamma IV, a ferry owned by Hongkong Electric, out of the water off Lamma Island.

    By NBC News staff and wire reports — Police on Tuesday arrested six crew members from two boats carrying partygoers that collided, killing at least 37 people in one of Hong Kong's deadliest maritime accidents.

    Police Commissioner Tsang Wai-hung said crew members from both boats were detained on suspicion of endangering passengers by operating the craft unsafely, but he provided no other details, The Associated Press reported.

    Salvage crews were raising the Lamma IV, which sank after colliding with a ferry Monday as it carried partygoers to a fireworks show celebrating China's national day. A body found aboard the vessel Tuesday afternoon raised the death toll to 37. Read the full story.

    See earlier pictures of the ferry disaster on PhotoBlog.

    Hong Kong police have arrested six crew members after  a company boat and a ferry carrying more than 120 collided in what is being called Hong Kong's worst maritime disaster in more than 40 years. NBC's Ian Williams reports.  

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  • 1
    Oct
    2012
    4:10pm, EDT

    Rescuers search for Hong Kong ferry collision survivors at night

    Kin Cheung / AP

    Rescuers check on a half submerged boat after it collided Monday night near Lamma Island, off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island on Oct. 2, local time. Authorities in Hong Kong have rescued 101 people after a ferry collided with a tugboat and sank. A local broadcaster says eight people died.

    By NBC News and news services

    At least eight people were reported dead and as many as 20 remained missing after a Hong Kong ferry carrying more than 120 people was hit by another vessel late Monday. 

    Police in the Chinese territory said 101 people had been rescued in waters off the Lamma island village of Yung Shue Wan, according to the South China Morning Post.

    Hong Kong's Hospital Authority said there were eight deaths as of midnight Monday (12 p.m. ET), and at least 53 people sent to area hospitals, the Wall Street Journal reported. Continue reading.

    Vincent Yu / AP

    A survivor is carried onto shore after a collision involving two vessels in Hong Kong on Oct. 2, local time.

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  • 18
    Jul
    2012
    6:57pm, EDT

    Ferry capsizes off Zanzibar killing dozens

    EPA

    Passengers wait to be rescued on the overturned capsized MV Skagit/Kalama off the coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania, on July 18. MV Skagit/Kalama carrying 250 adults and 31 children onboard capsized off the east African coast of the Zanzibar in Tanzania, killing at least 15 people. One foreign woman was among the dead, the reports say. The boat was heading to Zanzibar from Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam.

    AP

    Wrapped in blankets, survivors of the MV Karama Star Gate, ferry accident are brought into Malindi port in Zanzibar Wednesday July 18.

    Reuters

    Rescuers assist a survivor from a ferry tragedy, at the port of Zanzibar on July 18. Rescue boats and divers were searching for any remaining survivors on the mostly submerged vessel.

     From Reuters: STONE TOWN, Zanzibar  - A ferry with more than 250 people on board, including some foreigners, capsized and sank between the east African coast and the Zanzibar archipelago on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people, police said.

    The ferry, MV Skagit/Kalama, set sail from mainland Tanzania at around midday for Zanzibar, Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago and a popular tourist destination. Click here to continue reading this developing story from Zanzibar.

    At least 31 people are dead, with dozens more reported missing, when a ferry capsizes and sinks off the eastern coast of Africa. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

     

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  • 1
    May
    2012
    8:12am, EDT

    100 still missing after India ferry disaster

    EPA

    Villagers along with Border Security Force (BSF) personnel engaged in a rescue operation for a capsized ferry at the Brahmaputra River in Bura-Buri village in Goalpara district in Assam, India, on May 1, 2012.

    The Associated Press reports — Army divers and rescue workers pulled 103 bodies out of a river after a packed ferry capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeast India, an official said Tuesday.

    At least 100 people were still missing Tuesday after the ferry carrying about 350 people broke into two pieces late Monday, said Pritam Saikia, the district magistrate of Goalpara district.

    Deep sea divers and disaster rescue soldiers worked through the night to pull bodies from the Brahmaputra River in Assam state. Rescue operations were centered around the tiny village of Buraburi near the India-Bangladesh border. Read the full story.

    EPA

    Divers and rescue workers stepped up the search for survivors on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. The double-decked ferry was carrying approximately 300 passengers when it capsized during a storm in the western district of Dhubri on Monday evening. Some 100 people swam to safety or were rescued.

    EPA

    A villager watches the rescue operation from the top of a banana tree on the bank of the Brahmaputra River.

    Biju Boro / AFP - Getty Images

    Relatives mourn alongside the bodies of victims of the ferry disaster on May 1, 2012. Indian authorities said that some bodies might have been washed downstream into Bangladesh.

     

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    Ever seen an Indian ferry? This one was probably designed to hold 50 or so but had 300 on board. Same this with their buses and trains..........amazingly overloaded then there is an accident and many are killed. Very sad.

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  • 14
    Mar
    2012
    3:20pm, EDT

    Views of the Mediterranean from a Greek ferry

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Sea waves hit the Blue Star Paros vessel during a nine-hour trip to the Greek islands of Paros, Naxos, Ios and Santorini, in the Aegean Sea on March 14, 2012.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    A Greek passenger seen on the Blue Star Paros vessel during a nine-hour trip to the Greek islands of Paros, Naxos, Ios and Santorini.

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Foreign tourists admire the volcanic island of Santorini.

    See more images from Greece in PhotoBlog.

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    Not impressed ....

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  • 13
    Mar
    2012
    5:35am, EDT

    Dozens missing after sinking of Bangladesh ferry

    AFP - Getty Images

    A man reacts near the scene of a rescue operation to retrieve drowned passengers after a ferry accident in Munshigong, Bangladesh on March 13, 2012.

    Reuters reports from Dhaka — A ferry carrying more than 250 passengers sank in a south Bangladesh river on Tuesday after colliding with a barge, and at least 150 people are still missing, police and witnesses said.

    The accident occurred on the Meghna river in Munshiganj district, some 31 miles south of the capital.

    Mohammad Azizul Alam, deputy commissioner for the district, said the Dhaka-bound ferry, the MV Shariatpur-1, was hit by the oil-laden barge early in the morning.

    At least 50 people managed to swim ashore from the sunken vessel, and a search is being conducted for the rest of the passengers. Click here for the latest updates.

    AFP - Getty Images

    A rescue operation underway to recover passengers after a ferry accident in Munshigong on March 13, 2012.

    AFP - Getty Images

    A rescue worker in scuba diving gear recovers the body of a drowned passenger after a ferry accident in Munshigong on March 13, 2012.

     

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    Many things in my life that I will completely avoid. One is finding my wife on "The Bachelor". The other is riding a Bangladeshi ferry.

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  • 2
    Feb
    2012
    7:50am, EST

    Gorothy Kenneth / EPA

    An aerial view of people in inflatable life rafts after the ferry they were traveling on, the MV Rabaul Queen, sank off the east coast of Papua New Guinea on Feb. 2, 2012. Authorities have confirmed that 219 survivors have been pulled from rough seas between PNG's second largest city, Lae, and New Britain, with up to 130 missing, after their ferry sank.

    Survivors escape in life rafts as ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea

    msnbc.com staff and news service report from PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea:

    Rescuers have plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.

    An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships were scouring the search area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to coastal town of Lae on the main island, Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement. Read the full story.

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  • 10
    Sep
    2011
    1:04pm, EDT

    Overcrowded ferry sinks off coast of Tanzania, killing scores

    msnbc.com news services report:

    "They normally pack us in like sardines in a can. And for that I really fear this could be a very big disaster," said resident Mwnakhamis Juma.

    The government in Zanzibar said last month it planned to invest in bigger, more reliable vessels to ferry passengers between the two islands.

    "We are fearing the greatest calamity in the history of Zanzibar. This is a disaster," said a government official, who declined to be named.

    Read more here.

    Sultan Ali / AP

    Tanzanian police carry bodies of children from the sea in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Sept. 10. An overcrowded ship sank in deep waters off mainland Tanzania with about 600 people aboard, and about 370 people are believed missing or dead. The ferry, M.V. Spice Islanders, was heavily overloaded and some potential passengers had refused to board when it was leaving the mainland port of Dar es Salaam, said survivor Abdullah Saied. It sank in an area with heavy currents between mainland Tanzania and Pemba Island at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Roughly 230 people had been rescued and 40 bodies had been recovered, said Mohamed Aboud, the minister for the vice president's office.



    Emmanuel Kwitema / Reuters

    Residents of Zanzibar gather to view the bodies of their loved ones who perished in a ferry tragedy that occurred on its way to Pemba, Sept. 10.

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  • 28
    May
    2011
    3:29pm, EDT

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    A child looks out the window of the Azzurra passenger ferry during a trip from Misrata to Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 28. Civilians are now able to take the commercial ferry from the once besieged city of Misrata to the de facto rebel capital of Benghazi in east Libya. Fighting on their home turf, Misrata's rebels overcame the heavier firepower of Moammar Gadhafi's forces in punishing street battles that expelled them from the western Libyan city.

    Rodrigo Abd / AP

    Men gather outside the casino converted into a makeshift mosque on the Azzurra passenger ferry during a trip from Misrata to Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 28.

    Civilians now able to cross from Misrata to Benghazi on passenger ferry

    Read more on the situation in Libya here.

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    A casino, converted into a mosque, eh? I thought I had seen some pretty ingenious conversions of businesses into churches here in the States. I believe this one beats them all.

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