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CBS News
an hour ago
- General
- CBS News
New transcript reveals frantic scene aboard Dali before Key Bridge collapse
Conversations among the Dali's two Maryland-based pilots and its foreign crew members portray an unremarkable beginning to the container ship's departure from Baltimore last year. The senior pilot had stepped on a staple at home, he told the others. The Dali's voyage to Sri Lanka would take one week longer than usual to avoid piracy in the Red Sea, the captain said. The apprentice pilot requested a little bit of sugar with his coffee. This story by Hayes Gardner continues. Read the rest at The Baltimore Banner: New transcript reveals frantic scene aboard Dali before Key Bridge collapse
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Oil tanker bound for Russia runs aground off Swedish coast
The Swedish Coast Guard is inspecting the Panama-flagged vessel Meshka that has run aground off the Swedish coast while en route to the Russian port of Vysotsk. Source: Swedish public service TV company SVT, as reported by European Pravda Details: The Meshka ran aground near the Swedish port city of Landskrona on Saturday after receiving a warning that it was off course and approaching the shore. On the same day, the Swedish Coast Guard questioned all 24 crew members. None were found to be under the influence of alcohol, and during interrogation, the crew claimed they reacted to the warning too late. Swedish authorities have launched an investigation into possible negligence in maritime navigation, and one crew member was served with a notice of suspicion. The Meshka, sailing under the flag of Panama, was headed to the Russian city of Vysotsk near the Finnish border, carrying approximately 938,000 litres of oil. No oil leaks have been detected so far, and the Swedish Coast Guard continues to monitor the situation. Background: The incident comes shortly after the Swedish government adopted a new regulation aimed at tightening insurance checks on foreign vessels, part of a broader effort to strengthen control over Russia's shadow fleet. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
The Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
British Airways steward found dancing naked in business class after ‘drugs binge' before flight from US to London
A BRITISH Airways crew member was found dancing naked in a business class toilet at 30,000ft. The steward is suspected of using drugs before the incident, which happened as he was supposed to be serving an in-flight meal. 2 Colleagues searched the aircraft when he went missing as they handed out food and drinks on the busy jet to London's Heathrow from the US. The in-flight crew boss was then stunned to find him completely naked and jigging up and down in the Club World cabin loo. He was bundled into a spare pair of pyjamas reserved for First Class passengers on the flight from San Francisco. The steward was then escorted to the First Class cabin, where he was buckled into a luxury seat for the remainder of the ten-and-a-half hour journey. BA bosses alerted cops, who met the double-decker Airbus A380 -800 on landing at 11am last Sunday to arrest him. He also received medical attention and was taken from the plane — which had around 470 passengers and crew on board — in a wheelchair. Angry crew members had to work the entire flight without breaks to cover for him. The steward was suspended from duty while investigations continue. One worker said: 'We think the guy popped pills when he was meant to be working. It is an extraordinary thing to do. "The plane was cruising at 37,000ft over the Atlantic, but this bloke seemed to be higher than anyone else. The moment travellers are left stunned as woman tries to board a plane with 'no trousers on' 'Rather than asking passengers 'chicken or beef', he was stripping off and dancing in the toilet. It was a long time before he was located and he was completely out of it. 'Not only is it really dangerous, it is a crazy way to end your BA career. This job can do ridiculous things to people, but staging a one-man disco in a Club World toilet is a new one on me.' British Airways said it is a police matter. Scotland Yard was approached for comment.
Wall Street Journal
3 days ago
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
Fiction: Donald Niedekker's ‘Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost'
Between 1594 and 1597, the Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz piloted three voyages through the frozen seas of the Arctic Circle in failed attempts to discover a northerly trade route to the Orient. In the last and most disastrous of these expeditions, Barentsz's ship became trapped in ice and his crew was forced to improvise a lodging on the Russian island of Novaya Zemlya—or Nova Zembla, the New World—to survive the winter. Depleted by scurvy, cold and exhaustion, the captain died at sea during the return voyage a year later. Donald Niedekker's evocative fictional reckoning with the expedition, 'Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost,' is narrated by an imagined member of Barentsz's crew who would ultimately perish on Novaya Zemlya. The book, translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder, takes as its inspiration for the character an unnamed sailor found in the diary of Gerrit de Veer, one of the real-life surviving shipmates, and invents for him a biography, making the narrator an itinerant poet who joins the crew to document its adventures. He duly records the wonder and terror of spouting whales and huddles of walruses ('an arbitrary patchwork of tails, heads, skin folds, tusks'), of polar-bear attacks and bewildering arctic mirages. The wrinkle is that the narrator delivers his account 400 years later from the vantage of his grave in Novaya Zemlya, which the warming planet is beginning to thaw. He thus exists outside of time and space, and his omniscient gaze fixes not only on his own life and death but on the fortunes of others in the age of exploration, including the cartographer Petrus Plancius, whose assurance that the Northeast Passage would offer clear sailing planted the seed for Barentsz's catastrophe. Tragedy has not slowed in the centuries since the narrator's death: He has witnessed Stalin's gulags fill Siberia and seen his island used as a Soviet test site for a hydrogen bomb. The quiet of the grave gives the narrator a serene detachment from all this havoc. The reflections, which drift in elegant patterns like blown snow, frequently muse on the vision of eternity inspired by the arctic void: 'Novaya Zemlya is the Nothing you must come to terms with. You do that by grasping that this Nothing is All, that All and Nothing are the same thing.'
CTV News
4 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Hot air balloon forced down on P.E.I. on attempt to be first to cross the Atlantic Ocean
A hot air balloon that was trying to travel over the Atlantic Ocean had to land near Cardigan, P.E.I., on Thursday. The first hydrogen, open basket gas balloon journey across the Atlantic has ended, for the time being, on the far side of the Northumberland Strait. Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Flight Control said all three crew members are safe after the balloon was forced to touch down 'with a suspected gas leak,' near Cardross, P.E.I., at 11:22 a.m. on Thursday in a Facebook post. The crew's last post before being forced to land had them 1,123 metres south of Boiestown, N.B., travelling at a speed of 18 knots (approximately 33 km/h). The team's final post in the Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Diary 2025 before putting down in P.E.I. documented their take-off from Presque Isle, ME, on Saturday. Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Diary has been documenting the vessel and its crew since they began preparing for their journey in 2023. The trip, if completed, would take them to altitudes between 6,000 and 8,000 feet as they cross the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, the journey will be the 'longest distance ever covered in this type of balloon,' said the explorer's website. From Maine, the intended route would take the balloon over Newfoundland, across the Atlantic, into Europe, covering thousands of kilometres in an estimated four to five days. Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer The Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer is pictured in Presque Isle, ME, United States. (Source: Facebook) The team intends to collect air samples as part of a study searching for microbes that they said could be used in the development of new medicines, biofuels, bioplastics or agri-tech. Some of their air samples will come from locations that have never been sampled. Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer A part of the Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer hydrogen air balloon is pictured where it landed near Cardross, P.E.I. (Submitted) For more P.E.I. news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
