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Lana’i diver killed in tour boat accident

Maui police have identified the diver killed in a boating accident off of Lana’i as Alan Amoncio, 51, of Lana’i City. Amoncio was reportedly free diving with his wife, Kittrick Hamilton-Amoncio at around 10:35 a.m, on Sunday, July 31, 2011, when he was struck by a tour boat just outside of the break wall at […]

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Diver dies after getting tangled in net

A Port Alberni man is dead after becoming tangled in a fishing net during a scuba dive Sunday night in the Harbour Quay. RCMP Staff Sgt. Kevin Murray said the 42-year-old man was diving just before 9 p.m. Sunday when he surfaced briefly, and called out to his wife that he was in trouble. As […]

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Firefighter dies in Shore diving accident

Philadelphia firefighter Lee Scarborough was on vacation last week, enjoying the beach and ocean at the North Jersey Shore’s Belmar. This week, relatives are planning a funeral for Scarborough, who died Saturday of injuries he sustained when he dove into the surf. “It’s a terrible tragedy,” said Bill Gault, president of Local 22, the Philadelphia […]

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Body of missing chairman is recovered

The body of the chairman of a Calgary-based energy company has been recovered from the waters of an Ontario lake. Police say the body has been positively identified as that of Bradley David Griffiths. The 55-year-old executive was boating on Lake Joseph near Parry Sound last Monday when he somehow ended up in the water, […]

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Diver caught adrift more than 3 hours

  Adrift and unseen in the Atlantic Ocean 60 miles off Monmouth County, lost diver Sally Wahrmann floated with her survival equipment for more than three hours while fish swarmed around – little triggerfish flanking her like a police escort, gold-colored mahi swooping past, a pair of dusky sharks lurking below. “For the first half-hour, […]

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Lincoln Park Father paralyzed after diving accident

29-year-old Jason Hampton is a hometown hero, a proud Marine who served two tours in Iraq and a corrections officer at a prison in Milan, which recently housed Kwame Kilpatrick. Now Hampton is in a hospital bed paralyzed from the waist down after a freak accident on June 26. His wife says he hit his […]

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2 died on training programme at Lake Pupuke

In his last conversation with his mother before he died in a diving accident, Tyron North told her, “I know that I’ve got a short time to live”. The 37-year-old and his friend Daniel Stoneham, 33, died while on a training programme at Lake Pupuke last week. On Friday, friends and family gathered to farewell […]

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Boy injures in Country Club Diving accident

A boy at the Crofton Country Club pool didn’t clear the diving board and the hit the back of his head. Local Ladder 7 rushed him to a local medical center with minor injuries. A boy was rushed to an area medical center after hitting the back of his head in a diving accident at […]

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Boat driver did not see killed girl

The driver of a boat which ran over and killed an 11-year-old girl he had been towing was not aware she had fallen into the water, a marine accident report said. He did not see her as he continued on a tight circular route, the report from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said. The […]

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Russia’s deadly marine disaster

President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday ordered sweeping inspections of Russia’s aging fleet of civilian ships after more than 100 people—including dozens of children—were feared dead when an allegedly overloaded Volga River cruise ship sank in a thunderstorm on Sunday, in the country’s worst marine accident in 25 years. “It’s already clear that this disaster couldn’t […]