PortandTerminal.com, January 3, 2021 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – The Atlantic ocean’s water temperature today in Halifax, Nova Scotia is a frigid 43ºF, a fact that our local fishermen and first responders are well aware of. Cold water is deadly and the colder it is, the more likely you are to die if you fall into it. A study done in …
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PortandTerminal.com, December 30, 2020 BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – A sailor who authorities describe as “very lucky” to be alive was been found clinging to a marine beacon for dear life in waters off the eastern coast of Australia. David Simpson, 64, was thrown from his small yacht when a strong wave hit the vessel near Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, CNN …
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PortandTerminal.com, December 30, 2020 ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – A cameraman filming the commissioning ceremony of a Russian naval corvette warship slipped and fell overboard yesterday. Fortunately, he was quickly pulled from the frigid water before coming to any harm. The ceremony was held at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg, Russia, along the Gulf of Finland. Reports on the …
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PortandTerminal.com, March 18, 2020 BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – An unnamed man from Costa Rica reportedly fell overboard from a ship on 8th March when bad weather hit. No one on board noticed he had fallen over the side of the vessel, according to local media. The man spent over 48 hours in the water before being picked up by an American …
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PortandTerminal.com, January 2, 2019 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – A passenger onboard the MSC Cruise Ship Orchestra apparently jumped overboard into the Indian Ocean on New Year’s eve. The ship was sailing from South Africa to Mauritius when the incident took place. Search teams were scrambled and spent an hour scouring the ocean off the coast of Madagascar for him, before …
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