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Heart-pounding footage shows the moment a boat blew its top at a Florida marina, leaving one person dead and another five injured on Monday. The small boat exploded around 6 p.m. and then the fire ...
A Pennsylvania man fishing in Key West was killed Sunday after he fell off a boat and was struck by the engine’s propeller, police said. Timothy Adam Christianson, 35, was standing on the stern ...
A woman has shared her dramatic recovery process after her bottom was “chopped off” in a boat accident. Kenzey Hunt, 20, is sharing her recovery process on TikTok after she was injured by a ...
After two weeks of poor fishing, staying awake for three straight days, and a 19-hour shift at the wheel, fatigue caught up with Captain Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie and he fell asleep, causing the boat to miss two pots. After the crew wondered about two consecutive missed pots, they call up the wheelhouse and wake up Captain Phil.
Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompasses , provide information to the computer pertaining to the vessel's position and the magnitude and ...
A ducted propeller, also known as a Kort nozzle, is a marine propeller fitted with a non-rotating nozzle. It is used to improve the efficiency of the propeller and is especially used on heavily loaded propellers or propellers with limited diameter. It was developed first by Luigi Stipa (1931) and later by Ludwig Kort (1934). The Kort nozzle is ...
The sheriff's boat was brought as close as possible to the moving speedboat, and VCFR Acting Division Chief and Technical Rescue Deputy Team Leader John Kyp was able to leap onto the smaller craft.
A boat heading to the Canary Islands caught fire and capsized off the Senegalese coast. The boat was carrying 200 migrants. [21] 140 2006 Cameroon: On 23 March an unnamed ship was sunk by a wave off the coast of Cameroon with 127 of the 150 on board killed. [22] 127 2011 Russia