An 86-year-old man killed in a boat fire off Brooklyn Bridge Park lived on the vessel full time, authorities said Sunday.
A 25-foot sailboat was still docked and floating Monday afternoon in Easport after firefighters spent more than an hour fighting the flames that engulfed the ship.
Charles McIlvain died on Sept. 2, 2019, at 44. He was one of 34 victims who were killed aboard the Conception — 33 passengers and a new deckhand — trapped below deck on a scuba diving boat that caught fire and sank off the Southern California coast.
Fire swamped an enormous building loaded with boats Friday in southeastern Michigan, sending smoke for miles along Lake Erie.
The captain of a scuba diving boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California last year, killing 34 people who were trapped below deck, was indicted Tuesday on federal manslaughter charges for one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history.
A person, who was recovered from the Raritan Bay near Keyport, N.J. after a boat capsized, died Saturday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The water had been choppy all day with the wind gusting across shimmering Lake Robinson, north of Greer.
Mariners’ Church of Detroit will observe the 45th anniversary Sunday of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald during its yearly memorial service for those who have died in Great Lakes shipwrecks.
Federal authorities are expected to vote Tuesday on what likely sparked a fire aboard a scuba dive boat last year that killed 34 people off the coast of Southern California.
Two people remained hospitalized with serious burns after a boat erupted in flames on a trip to make a music video.