News this week
The week is not even through, but several incidents involving seafaring vessels have been reported since Sunday the 8th. Lives have been lost, injuries sustained and losses incurred as a result of these cases, most of which could have been prevented. Among them are the sinking of an overloaded tour boat in Mexico, an attack on two vessels of a petroleum company in Nigeria, a cargo ship fire while in port in India, a diving boat that took on water in North Carolina, a sailboat that overturned in Texas, the sinking of a crab vessel in Canada, and a supply vessel fire in Singapore.