Sentence examples for a maritime disaster from inspiring English sources

He was born in 1889, and lost his father at the age of eight, in a maritime disaster.

If we witnessed a maritime disaster and a commission determined extra lifeboats would save lives, would we wait until 2019?

In the lower 48 states, we Americans rely on the Coast Guard to be on the scene of a maritime disaster in minutes.

Almost 50 years before, in Edgar Allan Poe's short novel of the South Seas, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," a character of the same name was stabbed and eaten by his starving shipmates in a maritime disaster.

The 2012 coronial inquest into the Siev 221 shipwreck criticised the federal government for failing to provide rescue vessels on Christmas Island despite the known likelihood of a maritime disaster occurring as unseaworthy asylum seeker boats approached the island.

Other legislative proposals seek to amend the Jones Act, which governs death and injury claims by seamen, and to nullify the United States Supreme Court's decision in the Exxon Valdez case to allow jurors to mete out large punitive damages against any company involved in a maritime disaster.

The accident comes as Europe has been re-examining its immigration policies in the aftermath of a horrific maritime disaster on Oct. 3, in which an overcrowded migrant boat carrying Africans capsized less than half a mile from Lampedusa, killing at least 339 people.

MANILA (AP) — A passenger ferry sank in the northern Philippines, in a second maritime disaster in three days.

"Typically, in a potential maritime disaster, the best idea is to stay with the boat," the 33-year-old told Fox News.

"Just as the hubris of headstrong shipbuilders who insisted that the Titanic was unsinkable led to an unparalleled maritime disaster, so Cameron's overweening pride has come unnecessarily close to capsizing this project," he wrote, calling it "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances".

Alongside this harrowing account of an Estonian maritime disaster and Michael Madsen's IMDB page, it appears to be the most depressing page on the internet.