Italy 12/05/2017 Costa Concordia verdict due Italy's highest court is due to give a verdict in the case of the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives.
Italy 20/04/2017 Italy's top court reviews case of Costa Concordia captain Italy’s highest court has begun reviewing the case of the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner.
USA 14/04/2017 New York banker digs deep to visit Titanic wreckage For over a century the tragic fate of the Titanic has been part of sea-faring folklore, stirring emotions and many inspiring books and films, including 1n 1997 one of the most successful in Hollywood…
South Korea 31/03/2017 Sewol bone fragments "not from a victim" Bereaved families are hoping to find the last nine bodies still missing after the South Korean ferry sank in 2014 with the loss of 304 lives.
South Korea 28/03/2017 Search of South Korean ferry wreckage uncovers remains of missing passengers A search of the ferry which sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, killing 304 people, has uncovered human remains.
South Korea 24/03/2017 Stricken South Korean ferry raised from the sea bed The Sewol has been brought back above the waves after foundering almost three years ago with the loss of more than 300 lives.
world news 15/02/2017 More rescue boats, more migrants drowning in the Med Authorities face a "sad paradox" as smugglers overload dinghies, says the European border and coast guard agency Frontex.
Italy 13/12/2016 Tunisian captain setenced to 18 years for deadly shipwreck A Tunisian man accused of being the captain of a migrant boat that sank killing over 700 people has been found guilty of manslaughter by an Italian court and faces 18 years in…
Italy 12/12/2016 Verdict expected in Catania shipwreck trial The Sicilian court is expected to deliver its verdict on captain Ali Malek on Tuesday. Just 28 of the 800 migrants survived when the fishing boat sunk in April 2015.
world news 03/11/2016 240 people drown in two migrant tragedies off Libyan coast The victims, believed to be mostly from West Africa, were travelling in rubber dinghies
Libya 03/11/2016 At least 239 migrants dead after two shipwrecks off Libyan coast Two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya have claimed the lives of at least 239 migrants.
Indonesia 02/11/2016 18 killed in Indonesia boat accident At least 18 people have been killed and more than 40 are still missing in Indonesia after the speedboat they were on capsized.
Indonesia 02/11/2016 Boat sinks carrying Indonesian migrant workers home from Malaysia A boat carrying 93 Indonesian migrant workers from Malaysia has sunk off Batam Island just south of Singapore, killing 17 of them according to Indonesia’s national disaster…
world news 03/10/2016 'Indifference is killing people': Italy calls for help while marking migrant remembrance day Italians on Lampedusa have marked the first official remembrance day for migrants, three years after a shipwreck half a mile from shore claimed the lives of more than 360 people seeking safety in…
Egypt 28/09/2016 Egypt migrant boat sinking: number of dead surpasses 200 At least 33 more bodies have been recovered from a migrant boat which sank off the Egyptian coast last week, raising the confirmed number of dead to 202.
Egypt 23/09/2016 More bodies recovered from sea after Egypt migrant tragedy Rescuers in Egypt have pulled more bodies from the sea, two days after a boat sank as it carried migrants towards Europe.
world news 30/08/2016 Almost 10,000 migrants rescued in Strait of Sicily in two days Around 3,000 migrants were rescued in the Strait of Sicily on Tuesday, in 30 separate missions.
world news 16/08/2016 Four dead after two boats collide near the Greek island of Aegina close to Athens At least four people have been killed and five others injured after a speedboat and pleasure boat collided off the Greek island of Ageina close to Athens, according to the Greek coastguard.
Italy 01/06/2016 Costa Concordia captain has appeal rejected A Florence appeal court has upheld the 16-year prison sentence for Francesco Schettino.
world news 31/05/2016 Migrant death toll in Mediterranean over past week 'rises to 880' The Mediterranean has seen its most deadly week of 2016 with more than 880 migrants believed to have drowned in shipwrecks off the Libyan…
