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This photo shows reconstruction work continuing in Calverton, N.Y., on TWA Flight 800, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off New York's Long Island last July 17, killing all 230 people aboard. Federal authorities said yesterday they believe TWA Flight 800 was blasted out of the sky by a powerful explosive device, all but ruling out mechanical failure as a cause of the crash.
In a closely choreographed dance, a rescue swimmer was lowered from the helicopter to the 45-foot U.S. Coast Guard response boat. Amid the spray of Lake Michigan and waves generated by the wind from the rotors of the helicopter, the guardsmen on the boat safely took the swimmer aboard.
Algae covered water at Stuart's Central Marine boat docks is thick, Thursday, June 30, 2016, in Stuart, Florida. The blue-green algae is the latest contaminant in years long arguments over water flowing from Lake Okeechobee.
An aerial photo shows blue-green algae enveloping an area along the St. Lucie River in Stuart, Fla.,Wednesday, June 29, 2016 Officials want federal action along the stretch of Florida's Atlantic coast where the governor has declared a state of emergency over algae blooms. The Martin County Commission is inviting the president to view deteriorating water conditions that local officials blame on freshwater being released from the lake, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Coast Guard officials are crediting a locator device on a boat that overturned to the quick rescue of four people off Folly Beach. Lt. Dan Sweeney with the U.S. Coast Guard said the 21-foot boat had an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon that made the difference in saving the lives of the four people whose boat capsized.
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Britain voted to lea... . Clouds gather above the Houses of Parliament on the banks of the river Thames following yesterday's EU referendum result, London, Saturday, June 25, 2016.
Three people were killed after a boat carrying seven passengers capsized off the Catalina Island coast Saturday morning, officials said. The overturned boat was reported at 9:30 a.m. near Salta Verde Point on the backside of Catalina, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard.
A Navy helicopter crashed in the James River during a training mission on Tuesday, and three crewmembers were plucked from the water uninjured by a passing vessel, authorities said. The MH-60S helicopter went down near the James River Bridge, Newport News Fire Battalion Chief Stephen Pincus told reporters.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after an experimental amphibious aircraft crash landed on Lake Monomonac in Rindge and flipped over. Authorities say the 57-year-old New Hampshire man who owned the seaplane and his 22-year-old passenger suffered only minor injuries when the aircraft crashed around 8:32 p.m. Tuesday.
In this Friday, May 27, 2016 photo, a Sea-Watch humanitarian organization crew member holds a drowned migrant baby, during a rescue operation off the coasts of Libya. Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as rescue ships saved thousands of others in daring operations.
It was midmorning on Tuesday, July 19, 1960, and two 376-foot U.S. Navy destroyers, foghorns blaring, were groping their way through dense fog five miles off Newport Beach. Both ships, the Ammen , which was heading to San Diego from the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, where it had unloaded it ammunition, and the Collett, sailing from San Diego to Long Beach, had been in the thick of combat in the Pacific during World War II.
Two children were among a group of 18 Albanians and two British people rescued from the English Channel after their inflatable boat began to sink. The UK Coastguard received a call for assistance just off the coast of Dymchurch in Kent at 11.40pm on Saturday.
A small World War II vintage plane taking part in celebrations of its 75th anniversary flew a partial loop while smoke spewed from it and then crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey on Friday, and divers recovered a body from its sunken wreckage, police and witnesses said. The single-seat plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt, crashed on a part of the river near where a US Airways commercial jet carrying 155 people splash-landed safely in 2009 in what became known as the Miracle on the Hudson.
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File FILE- In this Oct.1, 2015 file photo, Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency , right, talks about the status of Hurricane Joaquin as it moves through the eastern Bahamas as Rick Knabb, Director of the National Hurricane Center, left, participate in a media briefing at the National Hurricane Center. The U.S. government is set to release its forecast for how many hurricanes and tropical storms are expected to form over Atlantic and Caribbean waters in the next six months.
Colin Firth is taking the plunge for a new submarine thriller based on the real-life Kursk disaster in August, 2000. The British actor will join The Danish Girl star Matthias Schoenaerts in the film adaptation of the underwater tragedy, which occurred when a torpedo exploded onboard the K-141 Kursk, the pride of the Russian Navy.
On June 1, 1916, Louis Brandeis took his seat as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Jewish American to serve on the nation's highest bench. In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt.
When hundreds of Somalis were reported drowned in the Mediterranean last month, Abdi Deeq didn't rethink his plans to flee the Horn of Africa nation and risk the illicit crossing to Europe. More than two decades of Somali civil war and a bloody al-Qaida-aligned insurgency have left the 22-year-old student with little hope his country is becoming safer or more prosperous.
An engineer stands in front of a C-130 HAUP of the Hellenic Air Force, which took part and is on stand by, in the searching operation of the missing Egypt plane, at the military air base of Kastelli on the southern Greek island of Crete on Friday. CAIRO -- Search crews found human remains, luggage and seats from the crashed EgyptAir jetliner Friday but face a potentially more complex task in locating bigger pieces of wreckage and the black boxes vital to determining why the plane plunged into the Mediterranean.
The stern of the El Faro is shown on the ocean floor taken from an underwater video camera November 1, 2015. U.S. Coast Guard investigators are resuming their probe of the deadly sinking of a cargo ship during a hurricane last fall, with two weeks of hearings to examine ship operations, weather forecasts and regulatory oversight getting underway.