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The Ocean Race 2022-23 Race Schedule: Alicante, Spain - Leg 1 (1900 nm) start: January 15, 2023 Cabo Verde - ETA: January 22; Leg 2 (4600 nm) start: January 25
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"The special nature of the Clipper Round the World yacht race places a huge responsibility on one person to ensure the safety of the yacht and its crew at all times," the MAIB wrote in April 2017.
Sailor dies during Bay of Islands yacht race after being struck by boom
Hosted by the New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club, it is an annual 119-nautical-mile race from Auckland to Russell. First run 41 years ago, the event is one of the biggest events on the yachting ...
Yacht death: Man falls overboard during Channel race
A man has died after falling from a yacht during a race in the English Channel, police have said. The incident is understood to have happened at about 14:00 BST on Friday in French waters. The ...
Person dies after being hit by yacht boom during race
October 21, 2023. The Coastal Classic Yacht Race in 2017 (file image). (Source: Getty) A person has died after they were knocked unconscious during a yacht race in the Bay of Islands last night. The incident occurred on a yacht racing in the Coastal Classic at around 11.30pm near Cape Brett. Coastguard volunteers were conducting a night-time ...
British man dies after falling from yacht during Channel race
Nadeem Badshah. A British man has died after falling from a yacht during a historic race in the Channel, police have said. The sailor, whose identity has not been disclosed, was from the Greater ...
May 2, 2012. An accident off the coast of California during the Lexus Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race left three crewmembers of Aegean dead and one missing, the first fatalities in the race's history. According to a press release from the Newport Ocean Sailing Association (NOSA), the boat's tracking signal disappeared around 0130 on April 28.
Yacht captain dies in Rhode Island to Bermuda race
Alexander Newman. The captain of a boat competing in the Newport Bermuda Race died after he went overboard on the racecourse Sunday. Race officials say Colin Golder, of New Providence, N.J., went overboard about 325 miles from Bermuda. Golder was the captain of the yacht Morgan of Marietta, a 42-foot sloop. The boat's crew recovered Golder ...
'Absolutely incredible' crash leaves 11th Hour Racing Team ...
The hopes of 11th Hour Racing Team of winning The Ocean Race 2022-23 suffered a big blow as they were left with damage to their boat following a crash with GUYOT environnement - Team Europe.
After a collision, the U.S. boat retires from final leg of Ocean Race
The leading boat in The Ocean Race dropped out of the last leg of the around-the-world sailing competition on Friday and asked the sport's overseers for compensation in the standings to make up for the collision that punctured its carbon fiber hull.. Six months after leaving Spain on a 32,000-nautical mile (37,000-mile, 59,000-km) circumnavigation of the globe, 11th Hour Racing was T-boned ...
2 die in accident at finish of Route du Rhum sailing race
Nov 16, 2022, 01:24 PM ET. Email. Print. PARIS -- Two people died Wednesday when a motorboat following the Route du Rhum solo trans-Atlantic sailing race capsized off the coast of Guadeloupe, just ...
One hospitalized in powerboat race crash off Key West
The boat was participating in the Race World Offshore World Championship, which ends Sunday. Some of the boats can reach speeds of up to 160 mph, according to the Monroe County Tourist Development ...
Search ends for crewman after fatal California-Mexico yacht race crash
The Newport Ocean Sailing Association, the race organizer, said the accident occurred late Friday or early Saturday several miles off the coast near the ocean border of the two countries.
List of fatal accidents in sailboat racing
Race Name Host Club Date Name Place Boat Description Ref. Big Boat Series St. Francis Yacht Club 18 September 1994 Larry Klein (USA), 42, San Diego San Francisco Twin Flyer, 38 foot sloop 2007 Bruce Goldsmith (USA), 71 J/29 Boom head injury America's Cup Testing Golden Gate Yacht Club 9 May 2013 Andrew Simpson (GBR) San Francisco
Yacht crew member killed in Bay of Islands yacht racing accident
Police in New Zealand have confirmed that a crew member participating in the Coastal Classic yacht race has died after being struck by the boom on the boat. The incident occurred in the Bay of Islands, and the crew member was rendered unconscious and required immediate medical attention.
US and Japanese sailing boats collide during Bermuda Grand Prix
Play Video. 0:38. In the first race of the Bermuda Grand Prix, the US and Japanese teams collided and became entangled. The crash ruled both boats out of the rest of the day's racing and also led ...
Powerboats flip and crash simultaneously at Key West race
Mar 22, 2022. Share a story idea with ABC News Live. Two powerboats racing in parallel flipped and crashed simultaneously during the first day of an event in Key West, Florida. No serious injuries ...
"It's scary when you feel like you're about to kill someone": Slingsby
Australia driver Tom Slingsby has unpacked the dramatic moment the Australian F50 sustained serious damage in Christchurch, revealing he had to choose between 'keeping people safe' and hitting a race mark. Speaking after racing, an emotional Slingsby described the the moment as 'a blur', adding 'I don't think it's sunk in'.
List of fatal accidents in motorboat racing
Fatal Accidents during offshore powerboat racing. "Weirwolf" a 23 ft Whitehorse powered by 2 x 175 hp Mercury outboards. Boat nose dived into a wave and broke in half. Co-driver Michael Meeng escaped uninjured. [51] [53] Pironi was previously a Formula One racing driver for Ferrari.
Coast Guard Ends Search for 6 Missing in Bridge Disaster
The deadliest crash took place in 1983, when a passenger ship collided with a railroad bridge on the Volga River in Russia, killing 176 people, according to the report.
Could tugboats have prevented Baltimore Key bridge disaster?
Live updates:Two bodies in Baltimore bridge collapse recovered; search for 4 others ends Had the tugboats accompanied the ship all the way under the bridge, some experts said, they might have been ...
Fact Check: Angela Chao was CEO of Foremost Group, not Dali-owner Grace
Dali, the ship that destroyed the bridge on March 26, is owned by Singapore's Grace Ocean Pte Ltd. Chao, who died in February 2024, was CEO of Foremost Group, an American shipping company, and ...
Baltimore Key bridge collapse: Divers recover 2 bodies from water
BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent "routine engine maintenance" in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search ...
Nearly 10 people involved in Seminole County boat crash that ...
READ THE FULL STORY:Nearly 10 people involved in Seminole County boat crash that sends 2 to hospital. CHECK OUT WESH:Stay in the know with the latest Orlando news, weather and sports. Get the top ...
Patriarch Kirill Prays for Victims of the Moscow Metro Accident
Patriarch Kirill offered his prayers for the repose of the dead and the speedy recovery of all the accident's victims.
Cambridge continues Boat Race dominance with double ...
The Cambridge men's team celebrates with the trophy following the 169th Men's Gemini Boat Race 2024 on the River Thames, London, Saturday March 30, 2024.
Do not enter the water: how dirty Boat Race has captured world's
T hroughout the Boat Race's 195-year history, it has been regarded by the rest of the world as one of those peculiar British eccentricities, like Marmite and pantomime, that are best ignored ...
Chance Perdomo, star of 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' and 'Gen V
This undated photo provided by Shelter PR shows Chance Perdomo. Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Gen V, has died at age 27, following a motorcycle crash ...
17 reported hurt after river cruise ship hits a concrete ...
Seventeen passengers were hurt when a Bulgarian river cruise ship lost steering and hit the sides of a lock on the Danube in Austria, the apa news agency reported Saturday. Eleven of the injured ...
Moscow plane crash: Pilot climbed back into wreckage to call wife
Damir Yusupov, 41, has been hailed a hero by the Russian media and government after the emergency landing on Thursday.
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The Ocean Race 2022-23 Race Schedule: Alicante, Spain - Leg 1 (1900 nm) start: January 15, 2023 Cabo Verde - ETA: January 22; Leg 2 (4600 nm) start: January 25
"The special nature of the Clipper Round the World yacht race places a huge responsibility on one person to ensure the safety of the yacht and its crew at all times," the MAIB wrote in April 2017.
Hosted by the New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club, it is an annual 119-nautical-mile race from Auckland to Russell. First run 41 years ago, the event is one of the biggest events on the yachting ...
A man has died after falling from a yacht during a race in the English Channel, police have said. The incident is understood to have happened at about 14:00 BST on Friday in French waters. The ...
October 21, 2023. The Coastal Classic Yacht Race in 2017 (file image). (Source: Getty) A person has died after they were knocked unconscious during a yacht race in the Bay of Islands last night. The incident occurred on a yacht racing in the Coastal Classic at around 11.30pm near Cape Brett. Coastguard volunteers were conducting a night-time ...
Nadeem Badshah. A British man has died after falling from a yacht during a historic race in the Channel, police have said. The sailor, whose identity has not been disclosed, was from the Greater ...
May 2, 2012. An accident off the coast of California during the Lexus Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race left three crewmembers of Aegean dead and one missing, the first fatalities in the race's history. According to a press release from the Newport Ocean Sailing Association (NOSA), the boat's tracking signal disappeared around 0130 on April 28.
Alexander Newman. The captain of a boat competing in the Newport Bermuda Race died after he went overboard on the racecourse Sunday. Race officials say Colin Golder, of New Providence, N.J., went overboard about 325 miles from Bermuda. Golder was the captain of the yacht Morgan of Marietta, a 42-foot sloop. The boat's crew recovered Golder ...
The hopes of 11th Hour Racing Team of winning The Ocean Race 2022-23 suffered a big blow as they were left with damage to their boat following a crash with GUYOT environnement - Team Europe.
The leading boat in The Ocean Race dropped out of the last leg of the around-the-world sailing competition on Friday and asked the sport's overseers for compensation in the standings to make up for the collision that punctured its carbon fiber hull.. Six months after leaving Spain on a 32,000-nautical mile (37,000-mile, 59,000-km) circumnavigation of the globe, 11th Hour Racing was T-boned ...
Nov 16, 2022, 01:24 PM ET. Email. Print. PARIS -- Two people died Wednesday when a motorboat following the Route du Rhum solo trans-Atlantic sailing race capsized off the coast of Guadeloupe, just ...
The boat was participating in the Race World Offshore World Championship, which ends Sunday. Some of the boats can reach speeds of up to 160 mph, according to the Monroe County Tourist Development ...
The Newport Ocean Sailing Association, the race organizer, said the accident occurred late Friday or early Saturday several miles off the coast near the ocean border of the two countries.
Race Name Host Club Date Name Place Boat Description Ref. Big Boat Series St. Francis Yacht Club 18 September 1994 Larry Klein (USA), 42, San Diego San Francisco Twin Flyer, 38 foot sloop 2007 Bruce Goldsmith (USA), 71 J/29 Boom head injury America's Cup Testing Golden Gate Yacht Club 9 May 2013 Andrew Simpson (GBR) San Francisco
Police in New Zealand have confirmed that a crew member participating in the Coastal Classic yacht race has died after being struck by the boom on the boat. The incident occurred in the Bay of Islands, and the crew member was rendered unconscious and required immediate medical attention.
Play Video. 0:38. In the first race of the Bermuda Grand Prix, the US and Japanese teams collided and became entangled. The crash ruled both boats out of the rest of the day's racing and also led ...
Mar 22, 2022. Share a story idea with ABC News Live. Two powerboats racing in parallel flipped and crashed simultaneously during the first day of an event in Key West, Florida. No serious injuries ...
Australia driver Tom Slingsby has unpacked the dramatic moment the Australian F50 sustained serious damage in Christchurch, revealing he had to choose between 'keeping people safe' and hitting a race mark. Speaking after racing, an emotional Slingsby described the the moment as 'a blur', adding 'I don't think it's sunk in'.
Fatal Accidents during offshore powerboat racing. "Weirwolf" a 23 ft Whitehorse powered by 2 x 175 hp Mercury outboards. Boat nose dived into a wave and broke in half. Co-driver Michael Meeng escaped uninjured. [51] [53] Pironi was previously a Formula One racing driver for Ferrari.
The deadliest crash took place in 1983, when a passenger ship collided with a railroad bridge on the Volga River in Russia, killing 176 people, according to the report.
Live updates:Two bodies in Baltimore bridge collapse recovered; search for 4 others ends Had the tugboats accompanied the ship all the way under the bridge, some experts said, they might have been ...
Dali, the ship that destroyed the bridge on March 26, is owned by Singapore's Grace Ocean Pte Ltd. Chao, who died in February 2024, was CEO of Foremost Group, an American shipping company, and ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent "routine engine maintenance" in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the water when it collapsed. The others were presumed dead, and officials said search ...
READ THE FULL STORY:Nearly 10 people involved in Seminole County boat crash that sends 2 to hospital. CHECK OUT WESH:Stay in the know with the latest Orlando news, weather and sports. Get the top ...
Patriarch Kirill offered his prayers for the repose of the dead and the speedy recovery of all the accident's victims.
The Cambridge men's team celebrates with the trophy following the 169th Men's Gemini Boat Race 2024 on the River Thames, London, Saturday March 30, 2024.
T hroughout the Boat Race's 195-year history, it has been regarded by the rest of the world as one of those peculiar British eccentricities, like Marmite and pantomime, that are best ignored ...
This undated photo provided by Shelter PR shows Chance Perdomo. Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Gen V, has died at age 27, following a motorcycle crash ...
Seventeen passengers were hurt when a Bulgarian river cruise ship lost steering and hit the sides of a lock on the Danube in Austria, the apa news agency reported Saturday. Eleven of the injured ...
Damir Yusupov, 41, has been hailed a hero by the Russian media and government after the emergency landing on Thursday.