New book ‘A Greek Tragedy’ recounts harrowing shipwreck at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis
Author Jeanne Carstensen details a deadly shipwreck she witnessed through accounts from survivors and rescuers alike.
The year 2015 marked the peak of Europe’s refugee crisis. Over a million people arrived on the continent’s shores, trying to flee conflicts in home countries like Syria and Afghanistan — though they ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.
A mining firm uncovered an epic lost shipwreck in the middle of an African desert, containing a multi-million-pound treasure haul. The vessel, a Portuguese ship called The Bom Jesus, dates back ...
Photo / Australian National Maritime Museum Documents reveal a World War II-era shipwreck could trigger a $200 million oil spill clean-up but the Government is going against officials' advice to ...
MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard recovered six bodies and was searching for up to 40 migrants missing after a rubber dinghy that departed from Tunisia sank in the central Mediterranean, the ...
GIUSEPPE CAROTENUTO FOR LE MONDE Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said on Wednesday, March 19, as Italian authorities searched ...
Italy's coastguard and financial police pulled 10 people to safety Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said Wednesday, with ...
At least six migrants have died and 40 were missing after a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, a spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.
The wreck of the HMAS Brisbane was damaged during powerful swells and currents generated by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. A large section of the front of the ship was dislodged and ended up on the ...
The crew decided to drop anchor and wait out the rough weather, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society says. But that day, a gale overtook the ship and within ten minutes, it sank.
The ship wasn’t seen again until diligent explorers with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society found the wreckage off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It took members Darryl and Dan Ertel ...
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