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A speedboat carrying passengers in New York Harbor capsized near the Statue of Liberty on Saturday night, killing a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old daughter. The boat's operator has now been charged federally with causing their deaths through alleged misconduct and negligence.

Canadian search and rescue teams have ended their hunt for six people who went missing after a charter vessel sank off the coast near Vancouver on Sunday. Officials announced Monday evening that the four men and two women still unaccounted for are now presumed to have drowned.

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) successfully carried out a swift and complex medical evacuation of a critically ill mariner from a Liberia-flagged merchant vessel in the Bay of Bengal.

A vessel fire off the coast of St. Thomas on Sunday afternoon (31) resulted in the loss of a boat but ended without injuries after the vessel’s sole occupant was safely rescued from an overturned dinghy, according to the Virgin Islands Fire and Emergency Medical Services (VIFEMS).

A significant fire aboard the 8,212-TEU container vessel ONE Henry Hudson prompted a massive emergency response at the Port of Los Angeles late Friday, leading authorities to issue a temporary shelter-in-place order for surrounding neighbourhoods as crews battled the blaze.