34 h. ago Ship captain rejected ‘crash stop’ to save US tanker crew lives, court told

Vladimir Motin has denied manslaughter.

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1 week ago Waitress who escaped Swiss bar fire reveals staff had no safety training & says she’s ‘haunted by the faces of the dead’

A SURVIVING employee of the Swiss ski resort bar where a deadly fire killed 40 says she is "haunted by the faces of the dead". French national Louise Leguistin, 25, was one of the only staff members of Le Constellation to escape unharmed after the horrific blaze tore through the downstairs nightspot in the early...

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2 w. ago Russian captain did 'absolutely nothing' to stop ship from 'obvious collision course' with oil tanker which killed one crew member, court hears

Vladimir Motin, 59, was on sole watch duty when his vessel smashed into the US oil tanker the Stena Immaculate, causing the death of Mark Angelo Pernia, 38.

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2 w. ago Hilton worker fired after warning of ICE activity at the hotel where she worked

‘Quite frankly, I don’t really care if I lose my job,’ the woman said in the video, which has garnered millions of views

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2 w. ago Bartender who tripped intoxicated Strava employee in video that went viral is fired

Miguel Marchese told reporters he was fired because he was deemed an ‘insurance risk’

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2 w. ago ‘It’s cheaper than London’: meet the people who live on a cruise ship

‘It’s cheaper than London’: meet the people who live on a cruise ship  The Times

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3 w. ago I live on a cruise ship – yes, the crew sleep with each other, but here’s the big mistake that’ll get employees fired

A WOMAN who lives on a cruise ship has addressed the common misconceptions many people have. Megan McGuinness, who lives with her husband on a ship and does not have a full-time job, revealed that staff will often sleep with each other onboard. Not only this, but she also shared the huge mistake that would...

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3 w. ago Finland seizes ship and Russian crew suspected of cutting undersea cable by dragging their anchor

Finnish authorities seized and inspected the vessel suspected to have caused the damage, the country's border guard said in a statement.

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3 w. ago Dramatic moment hero mum jumps off dock to rescue daughter, 4, trapped in water between cruise ship and pier

THIS is the dramatic moment a mother saved her four-year-old daughter from drowning. The brave parent leapt off a dock to rescue her child, who was trapped between a cruise ship and a pier in the Bahamas. Heart-stopping footage shows crew members rushing to help the mum and daughter to safety. Staff throw life rings...

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4 w. ago The Zorg by Siddharth Kara review – scarcely imaginable horrors at sea

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave tradeOver the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 million Africans were trafficked by Europeans to the Americas. 1.8 million of them perished on the voyage under scarcely imaginable conditions of overcrowding, filth and disease. Some threw themselves overboard. And others were thrown into the sea.In The Zorg, Siddharth Kara tells two stories. The first is of a harrowing incident aboard the eponymous slave ship – the murder of 132 Africans by the British crew. The second relates how that event came to play a role in the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, in large part through the work of a dazzling array of committed campaigners. One of these was Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the few surviving accounts of the Middle Passage from the perspective of an enslaved person, in which he described it as “a scene of horror almost&...

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