Off Nantucket News Today

Rip currents. the water is calm but you dont know what is going on underneath the surface. >> i remember when sam champion went into a rip current and he got sucked right out. even though he was taught what to do he still couldnt -- it is so hard and youre panicked and taken farther and farther. >> are you supposed to swim parallel? >> you are not supposed to swim. let it take you because it will spiral out and then try. obviously, fighting it is not futile but exhausts your oxygen. >> total cou...

Warrant. funeral services will be held for the young woman killed on a san francisco pier allegedly by an undocumented immigrant. 32-year-old cate steinley will be laid to rest today. and terrifying moments for a family nearly swept away by a rip current off nantucket. erin johns is holding on to a camera when a current catches her. her father tries to help when he tries to help his wife in the same rip current. as you can see, lifeguards and beach goers rushed to bring them both back to saf...

Astoning 20,000 miles and katherine, 13,679 miles. in all, 53 great white sharks tagged and transmitting. so far, no discernible pattern. >> were getting a sense of the scope at least of their movement. theyre far more dynamic than we thought. >> reporter: from the coast off nantucket south to miami beach and into the gulf of mexico we now know great whites are frequently yards from the beach. a few charitable trust study says an estimated 100 million sharks are killed each year by commercial fi...

Situation, many passengers on that airplane are not afforded the protections of the montreal convention. >> you mentioned that. help us you know be in the shoes, if you can, of some of these family members. we now know seven bodies have been recovered. take me back to what that identification process was like for your family since thats where we are. >> one thing to be aware of is each crash is different. in our case the airplane hit the water traveling close to the speed of sound. everything sh...

Gulf of thailand were very low. but pilot suicide as we talked about in that egyptair disaster off nantucket in the late 90s, that was shortly into the flight, correct? the malaysia airlines flight if the information is accurate, it went on for hours well off course. ds that li does that line up with the theory of suicide? >> if you look back at the egyptair 990 story, there was a lot of recriminations that were focused on the family of the first officer who was implicated by the ntsb on a suici...

I have two kids and i thought i was going to die. >> i remember thinking to myself if there is a point in this whole ordeal that we are going to die it is going to be on this lifeboat. c>> countless teals of ancient time of men who sailed the seven seas in search of adventure. as long as you have a price of a ticket you can be surrounded >> we were told that the electrical system was failing by the opulence of a safe and at first we were told not to panic. voyage and safe return. >> there is an ...

Seven seas in search of adventure. as long as you have a price of a ticket you can be surrounded by the opulence of a safe voyage and safe return. which is why the wreck of the costa concordia has everyone asking how it being have happened. everyone knows tiitantics tragic tale. there is other notable disasters in sea . 1956. an drea collides with the sock hom and goes off nantucket and 51 lives are lost. and wreck of the edmand fitzgerald on lake sister kill would 29 people. exxon valdez strike...

Seven seas in search of adventure. as long as you have a price of a ticket you can be surrounded by the opulence of a safe voyage and safe return. which is why the wreck of the costa concordia has everyone asking how it being have happened. everyone knows tiitantics tragic tale. there is other notable disasters in sea . 1956. an drea collides with the sock hom and goes off nantucket and 51 lives are lost. and wreck of the edmand fitzgerald on lake sister kill would 29 people. exxon valdez strike...

Adventure. as long as you have a price of a ticket you can be surrounded by the opulence of a safe voyage and safe return. which is why the wreck of the costa concordia has everyone asking how it being have happened. everyone knows tiitantics tragic tale. there is other notable disasters in sea . 1956. an drea collides with the sock hom and goes off nantucket and 51 lives are lost. and wreck of the edmand fitzgerald on lake sister kill would 29 people. exxon valdez strikes a reef and spills oil....

>> hi alex. >> as you look at the investigators who are analyzing all the data from the pilots flight simulator that was taken from his home yesterday, what kind of information might they possibly learn? >> well, they want to see if he ran any simulation of a flight like this one, just to see if he did a dry run, so to speak. but ill tell you what the chances of finding something at home, that hasnt worked in past cases. two big suicide investigations both from the decade of the 1990s. one early...