Tag: Shipwrecks
More than 120 migrants dead in the Channel, the terrible toll of shipwrecks over the past 4 years
This Tuesday, September 3, at least 12 people died in the English Channel, while trying to cross the sea on a makeshift boat. The tragedies are multiplying. Crossing the Channel,…
DRC: “If there are so many shipwrecks, it is due to the irresponsibility of the government”
At least thirty people died in the sinking of an overloaded wooden motorized boat, called a whaleboat, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on the night…
Prison for men who looted shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea – the Court of Appeal toughens the sentence
The district court sentenced three of the men to grave antiquities crime and one to aiding and abetting antiquities crime, to community service and a fine. The verdict was appealed…
Departures and shipwrecks are increasing off Tunisia
Not a day goes by in Tunisia without the sea carrying new bodies. The Coast Guard made five times more interceptions at sea in the first quarter of 2023 than…
Dozens of migrants drowned off Tunisia in new shipwrecks
The Tunisian Coast Guard announced on Sunday March 26 that at least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died of drowning in three different shipwrecks off the coast of Tunisia. It…
Shipwrecks and treasures discovered outside Colombia
The Galeon sank in 1708 and now seconded divers have found two more shipwrecks. One is believed to be a ship from the Spanish colonial era, the other from the…
Shipwrecks in the Channel: “It is the European regulations that create the smugglers”
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, this Saturday, December 18, 2021, Florent Guignard is online with Yann Manzi. He is the co-founder of Utopia 56, an association that helps…