One of the boats was carrying mostly students who were returning to town for the start of the new school year, residents of the area said.

A single mechanical failure or mistake isn’t what usually results in a “Mayday!” call on marine VHF radio. Compound failures or mistakes typically cause ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KABC) -- Attorneys representing the families of four victims killed when the Conception dive boat burned and sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island last September are putting ...

A child has died in a tragic incident after 48 people fell off a small boat attempting to cross the English Channel.

The disaster of the ferry boat Express Samina on September 26, 2000 off the coast of Paros that claimed the lives of 81 ...

At least 193 people have died after two separate boat capsize incidents in the Democratic Republic of Congo In the first incident on Sept. 10, a motor boat capsized, leaving 86 people dead, including ...

None of the eight people who died following the capsizing of a boat in Lake Tahoe last month after a sunny day suddenly turned stormy were wearing life vests, according to a preliminary investigation ...

None of the eight people killed in a boating accident in Lake Tahoe in June were wearing life jackets, according to a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board on ...

In October 2024, 126 people lost their lives in a shipwreck on Lake Kivu in eastern DRC, according to the government's ...

TRIPOLI: Nearly 100 Sudanese refugees were killed or remain unaccounted for in two separate boat tragedies off Libya’s coast ...

The deadly incidents occurred on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 about 150 miles from each other, authorities said Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.