NYC boating horror kills 2, leaves three more injured
A boat capsed on a channel between Brooklyn and Staten Island on Sunday afternoon – killing two people and wounding three more. According to a NYPD spokesperson, one of the vessel's residents called 911 around noon, and told officers that they somehow turned it over on the Ambrose Channel, the main transport lane that slices […]
Authorities searching for Hunter Slezak, 7, after father, family friend found dead in Alabama bay during boating trip
Authorities are desperately searching for a 7-year-old boy after his father and a family friend were found dead in a bay near Dauphin Island, Alabama, on Friday. Little Hunter Slezak still hasn't been recovered three days after he went on his first shrimping trip in Pelican Bay in a 22-foot boat with his father and […]
Calif. teen survives boating accident that killed 5 relatives by hiding in cooler
A 13-year-old boy survived by hiding in a cooler after his father and four other members of the crew were killed in a boating accident off the coast of central California. Juradi “Jude” Kammunkoon was crabbing with relatives just off Bodega Bay late on the evening of Nov. 2 when his boat was thrown violently […]
Connecticut boating accident leaves 5 people injured, 3 others missing
The U.S. Coast Guard said it has rescued five people and is searching for three more after a boat collision Monday night in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The five rescued crew members were taken to hospital for treatment, the coast guard said. Fox 61. The Coast Guard said a search was underway for three missing men […]
Teen killed in horrific boating accident on Jersey Shore
A New Jersey teenage girl was killed this weekend after being struck by a propeller while attempting to board a boat in a horrific accident off the New Jersey coast, police said. Zeina Mahafza, 18, died around 4:30 p.m. as she was trying to exit a raft onto a boat docked in Sunset Park on […]
New mom Jerri MacMeekin drowns in boating accident in Texas
A tragic Fourth of July boating accident in Texas left a new mother dead, and her brother-in-law and the other boat driver facing DUI charges. Authorities in Willis, Texas, said 31-year-old Jerry McMeekin drowned after falling off the back of a boat on Lake Conroe when the boat operated by Kyle McMeekin collided with another […]
California man drowns in lake while boating with friend
A man in his 30s swimming with friends in Lake Siquillo near Mount Shasta in Northern California drowned Wednesday after their boat was swept out of reach, the Siquillo County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. The man’s body was recovered the following day. The man began to struggle and disappeared underwater before his friend could help him, […]