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A surfer takes advantage of large waves caused by hurricane Irina which is sitting some 200 nautical miles off Durban on Monday.
SpaceRef reports: The current forecast is for the Irina to curve towards the south, then make landfall in southern Mozambique within the next 96 hours (by March 7) as a weak Tropical Cyclone. The storm is predicted to primarily be a heavy rainfall event, although high and/or damaging winds may also accompany the rain.
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The tanker 'Harbour Progress' moves through thick fog on the Kiel Canal towards the Baltic Sea near Gruenental, Germany on Monday. In such poor visibility conditions the crew can not even see the front of the ship and must trust the radar.
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A cargo ship named The Delta Mariner pauses in the water after colliding with a southwestern Kentucky bridge that partially collapsed when it was struck Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, near Aurora, Ky. The ship was traveling upriver toward the Kentucky Lock and Dam when it hit the aging steel bridge, which was built in the 1930s and handles about 2,800 vehicles a day.
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The Delta Mariner pauses in the water.
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Aerial photo of the The Delta Mariner, an ocean freight vessel as it sits under the collapsed 200-foot segment of the Eggner's Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake, Jan. 27, 2012. The Delta Mariner struck the main span of the Eggner Ferry Bridge on Thursday evening at U.S. Highway 68 and Kentucky Highway 80.
The full story reported by AP includes a description by a motorist who was on the bridge at the time:
"All of a sudden I see the road's gone and I hit the brakes," he said. "It got close."
Parker said he stopped his pickup within five feet of the missing section. Two cars behind him stopped on his bumper and he saw another car on the other side of the missing section stopped.
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Damage is seen on the Doola 3, an oil tanker carrying petroleum, after it exploded in waters off South Korea's western port city of Incheon Jan. 15.
According to the Korea Herald:
Doola Shipping, which operates the ship, said the explosion seems to have taken place while gas was being drained from the oil tank. "The vessel usually transports diesel, but this time it carried gasoline. We are now examining whether it had any relation to the explosion," a company official said.
The explosion was not caused by any external shock, Coast Guard officials said, adding it suddenly occurred when some crew members were cleaning the oil tank on the deck. They will request a forensic test for the case, the officials said.
Full story: Freight vessel explosion in West Sea kills 5 crewmen
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Boats of the South Korean Coast Guard patrol near the damaged Doola 3, center, an oil tanker carrying petroleum, after it exploded in waters off South Korea's western port city of Incheon Jan. 15. Five crew members were killed and six others are missing after the explosion of the 4,191-tonne freight ship, which had been carrying 16 crewmen -- 11 Koreans and 5 Myanmarese -- on board, in waters north of Jawol Island near Incheon, according to the coast guard.
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An image from the bridge camera aboard the Ice Breaker Healy taken at 4:01 a.m. EST on Jan. 13, 2012 shows lights on the shore line as the Healy and an oil tanker approach the cut-off town of Nome, Alaska.
When this image was taken, the Healy was 9.2 miles from Nome. The latest report from the Associated Press says the Russian tanker that the icebreaker is escorting is now just six miles from its destination.
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A photo released on Jan. 12, 2012, shows the Jeong Woo 2, a Korean fishing vessel in the Ross Sea, after a fire broke out on board.
The Associated Press reports from WELLINGTON, New Zealand:
Three Korean fishermen are missing while another 37 have been rescued after their vessel burst into flames in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
The Rescue Coordination Centre of New Zealand says the 167-foot Jeong Woo 2 sent out a distress call early Wednesday morning and two nearby fishing vessels rushed to help out. Continue reading.
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, left, breaks through the Bering Sea ice 165 miles south of Nome, Alaska, on a return path to break ice up around the tanker Renda on Jan. 8, 2012. The Renda is carrying more than 1.3 million gallons of critically needed fuel to be delivered to Nome.
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Coast Guard Cutter Healy breaks ice on Jan. 8, 2012.
msnbc.com staff and news services report from ANCHORAGE, Alaska:
A Coast Guard icebreaker is cutting a path through icy seas for a Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel for the iced-in Alaska city of Nome.
The 370-foot tanker Renda, hauling more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel, is scheduled to arrive later Monday or Tuesday.
Video and still photo images released by the Coast Guard show the two vessels moving steadily through ice jammed seas. Read the full story.
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Russian-flagged tanker Renda follows a path made in the ice by the crew of the Healy, 250 miles south of Nome on Jan. 6, 2012.
A Coast Guard vessel is cutting a path through the icy waters for a Russian tanker carrying much needed-fuel for Nome, Alaska. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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MV Rena is seen in two pieces after overnight bad weather pounded the vessel, on Jan. 9, 2012 in Tauranga, New Zealand. The ship, which struck Astrolabe Reef off the coast of Mt Maunganui on Oct. 5, 2011, split in two over the weekend.
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A team of oil-spill and wildlife specialists has been mobilised as oil again began flowing from the Rena, after it broke in two in a storm over the weekend.
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A security guard walks on a beach where shipping containers and bags of milk powder, seen here, were washed ashore on Jan. 9, 2012.
The Associated Press reports from WELLINGTON, New Zealand:
A light sheen of oil extended about two miles from a wrecked cargo ship that split in two over the weekend, but so far the damage appears small compared to the environmental disaster created when the vessel ran aground in October, New Zealand authorities said Monday.
Waihi Police Sgt. Dave Litton said police closed public access to popular Waihi Beach on Monday morning after four cargo containers and other debris from the vessel washed ashore. He said police received calls about people driving off with some of the bags of milk powder that are strewn along the beach.
Authorities say the milk and other items washed ashore could be health hazards. Read the full story.
See earlier coverage of the Rena disaster on PhotoBlog.
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Workers weld at a ship-building yard next to Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 8.
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Workers weld at a ship-building yard next to Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jan. 8.
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A worker welds at a ship building yard next to Buriganga River in Dhaka, Jan. 8.
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South Korean icebreaker ''Araon," left, approaches the Russian ship ''Sparta''.
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Crew members of the Russian ship ''Sparta'' are seen as the South Korean icebreaker ''Araon'' approaches.
The "Sparta," a Russian fishing trawler that has been trapped for more than a week in the Antarctic after a collision with an iceberg left its hull with a rip measuring about 150 centimeters, and its crew of 30 have been met by the South Korean polar research vessel and icebreaker "Aaron."
The icebreaker left New Zealand's second-largest city of Christchurch on Dec. 17 to rescue the Russian ship.
The 7,487-ton "Araon" carrying a 37-member survey team was en route to Terra Nova Bay in the Ross Sea region of the frozen continent, where South Korea plans to start the construction of the nation's second scientific research base by December of next year. The team is expected to return home in late January, after conducting research for the Jangbogo Scientific Research Base.
The crews are trying to pump fuel out of the damaged boat so that the leak may be welded shut.
Read more here.
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A photograph provided by the United States Air Force on Dec. 16, 2011 shows the Russian fishing boat Sparta, near the Antarctic ice shelf about 2,000 nautical miles southeast of New Zealand.
The Associated Press reports from WELLINGTON, New Zealand:
A Russian fishing vessel with 32 crew members was taking on water near Antarctica on Friday. Heavy sea ice was hampering rescue efforts, and officials said it could be four or five days before anybody reaches the ship to try to rescue the crew.
The Sparta was listing at 13 degrees next to the Antarctic ice shelf in the Ross Sea, according to Maritime New Zealand. The agency said that the crew was safe and was throwing cargo overboard to lighten the ship, and that some of the crew had boarded lifeboats as a precaution.
The ship has a 1-foot hole in the hull about 5 feet below the water line, the agency said.
"It's a very remote, unforgiving environment," said Andrew Wright, executive secretary of the Australian-based Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which has licensed the Sparta to catch toothfish in the Southern Ocean.
Wright said he didn't know what caused the hole, although he added that an iceberg "would be a good candidate." Read the full story.
The Indian Navy sprung into action today to rescue a crew of 30 after stormy weather claimed a ship transporting coal between Indonesia and India.
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An Indian Navy helicopter rescues a crew member off a sinking ship off the coast of Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. The ship was carrying 60,000 tons of coal from Indonesia to India and sank off the coast of Mumbai after its crew of 30 was rescued when it began taking on water in stormy seas.
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A crew member of a sinking ship is hoisted onto an Indian Navy helicopter performing rescue operations as merchant ship MV Rak sinks in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Aug. 4.
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Rescued crew members sit aboard a container ship after being rescued from their stricken vessel off the Mumbai coast. The Panama-flagged MV Rak Carrier, a 220-meter (722-foot) long vessel was on voyage from Indonesia to Port Dahej (Gujarat), carrying coal, when it sank off the coast of Mumbai, after all of its 30 crew comprising of Indonesians, Jordanians and Romanians were airlifted by two helicopters and ferried across to the helicopter base INS Shikra.
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