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First responders, a company called SeaTow and others are being credited with making a miraculous recovery of over a dozen people after a 115-year-old schooner capsized in Maine s Kennebec River off of Bath on Friday.
The Mary E was built in 1906 in Bath and is now owned by the Maine Maritime Museum.
Once a cargo vessel, it had sunk during a storm in Lynn, Massachusetts, in the 1960s but has since been restored multiple times and carried many passengers aboard. It eventually joined the National Register of Historic Places.
On Friday evening, 18 people were on board the Mary E during a Maine Maritime Museum tour when the vessel capsized.
Survivor of capsized lift boat details escape during hearing
Only six people on board survived. including Lewis. He is one of two survivors slated to speak during the hearing. Share Updated: 6:18 PM CDT Aug 2, 2021 Associated Press
Survivor of capsized lift boat details escape during hearing
Only six people on board survived. including Lewis. He is one of two survivors slated to speak during the hearing. Share Updated: 6:18 PM CDT Aug 2, 2021
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Show Transcript DAY OF TESTIMONY AS THE COAST GUARD BEGAN A TWO-WEEK HEARING TO LOOK DEEPER INTO WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE SECOR POWER FLIPPED OFF THE LOUISIANA COAST BA INCK APRIL. THE SECOR POWER CAPSIZED JUST ABOUT SEVEN MILES OFF THE COAST IN HURRICANE FORCE WINDS 13 OF THE 19 PEOPLE ON BOARD WERE KILLED SIX BODIES WERE FOUND SEVEN ARE STILL MISSING AND PRESUMED IT TODAY OFFICIALS HER TESTIMONY FROM SURVIVORS ABOUT WHAT LIKE MOMENTS AFTER THE VESSEL FLIEDPP A PUSHED ON A WINDOW
August 2, 2021 By Frank McCormack
Donjon-SMIT, the salvage contractor charged with raising the wrecked lift boat Seacor Power and transporting it ashore, successfully raised the bow section of the vessel July 10 and moved it by barge to Modern American Recycling Services Inc.’s (MARS) facility in Houma, La.
The vessel capsized south of the Louisiana coast the afternoon of April 13 in severe weather. The Seacor Power was on its way from Louisiana’s Port Fourchon to a worksite on the east side of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Nineteen personnel were on board, including nine vessel crew members, two galley staff and eight oilfield workers. Six were rescued by good Samaritan and Coast Guard mariners. The bodies of six others have been recovered, while seven remain missing.
Survivor of capsized lift boat details escape during hearing
“You’re just begging God to please calm the seas,” said survivor Dwayne Lewis. You talk to your dead momma, and you tell her you’re not ready to see her.” Author: REBECCA SANTANA (AP) Updated: 7:18 PM CDT August 2, 2021
NEW ORLEANS A man who was on a liftboat that capsized off the coast of Louisiana in April, killing 13 people on board, on Monday recalled how he hammered on a window with a fire extinguisher, was sucked into the sea by a wave and then prayed to God to calm the seas as he floated in the choppy waters before being rescued.
A preliminary report details how three passengers in the USA were able to radio for help and crash-land a hot-air balloon without injury in July.
Pilot Brian Boland died when he and a fourth passenger were thrown overboard by the impact of an initial crash before the hot air balloon bounced back to the sky, the report released yesterday said.
The 72-year-old took flight July 15 from an airport he owned in Thetford, Vermont, with four passengers aboard the balloon that was registered for sightseeing, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
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Brian Boland has been described as a pioneer or hot air ballooning.(AP)