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Burns on Skeleton Coast France Telecom-Orange on Friday announced that an unexplained fire had erupted on its cable ship, The Chamarel, off the Skeleton Coast of Namibia in the Atlantic Ocean. After battling the blaze for several hours, the crew abandoned ship.		US Army Vessel Beached The Army vessel reportedly struck an object and began taking on water in Chiniak Bay.

Manitowoc Runs Aground The Manitowoc, a ship carrying limestone, ran aground in Saint Joseph this week.		Oil sheen near stricken cargo ship Maritime New Zealand says hydraulic oil has spilt from a large cargo ship which has struck a reef near the Tauranga Harbour this morning, however the vessel's fuel tanks are still intact.

Accident on Bosphorus Possible exercises are organized in order to prevent a disaster of ship accident on Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. The Bosphorus was closed for 5 hours to ship traffic because of the exercise.		Visund gas leak Statoil has started investigating the cause of gas leak on the Visund platform at the weekend which came from one of the gas risers on board the facility.

Iranian vessel ran aground Iranian general cargo vessel Saman ran aground at 139 kilometer mark in Volga-Caspian sea Canal at 1120 LT April 09 2011, while dropping an anchor.		Collision off Isle of Man Two lifeboats were sent to a sinking fishing vessel after it collided with a coaster five and a half miles south of the Isle of Man in the morning April 9.

Accident on Ferry Loading Three men have been taken to hospital following an incident at Galway Docks this morning.		Restaurant Broke Loose Jeff Ruby?s Waterfront restaurant, situated on a barge on the Ohio River, broke loose from its moorings and began floating down river, with diners trapped onboard, toward the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge.

Four Barges Sink on Mississippi The US Army Corps of Engineers is using an additional guide boat at Lock and Dam 25 near Winfield, Missouri to assist tows bound downriver after four loaded barges broke loose and sank.		The Duck Boat Disaster The NTSB has opened the docket on its investigation of the July 7, 2010 incident in which, at about 2:37 pm

Vessel runs aground U.S. Coast Guard personnel are on scene and monitoring the grounding of the 100-foot tug Commodore Straits, which ran aground while pushing two barges.		Costa Classica collides Cruise ship Costa Classica has collided with a cargo vessel at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

167 meters long ship aground The 167 meter long ship Sandnes ran aground at Esbjerg Harbour, Denmark at 08.50.		Tanker crush leaks fuel JET fuel was pouring from a tanker into the North Sea this morning after it was involved in a collision with another huge ship.

Choppy seas hinder authorities Choppy seas kept authorities from trying to free a grounded oil tanker in St. Kitts on Wednesday		Tanker has run aground An oil tanker ran aground Monday in the harbour of a small coastal Labrador community.

4,4 mn barrels of oil spilled The quantity spilled from BP in the Gulf of Mexico was 4.4 million barrels or 185 million gallons.		Vessel runs aground A cargo vessel which ran aground and damaged a large coral reef off Calatagan town, Batangas on Sunday morning remained stranded Monday, authorities said.