'shipwreck' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or a literal shipwreck. For example, "The shipwreck was found by a dive team at the bottom of the ocean."
A spike in the numbers of immigrants attempting the dangerous sea crossing from Libya has sparked alarm in Europe, particularly after about 800 people drowned in a Mediterranean shipwreck last month.
From the day of the shipwreck a few miles off the coast last Thursday in which almost 150 migrants died, the beach was full of volunteers.
Fossi said the current situation marked a big improvement since April, when 800 people drowned in a single shipwreck.
Jimi Petros survived perhaps the most worst shipwreck of them all, the night in October last year when 366 migrants died off Lampedusa, the tiny Mediterranean island that has become a miserable byword for transitory migrants.
With this month's Malta shipwreck tragedy, IOM offices worldwide received calls and emails and social media posts from family members across Europe and the Middle East seeking news about their missing relatives, many now feared dead.
"I turned away from the monitor then looked back – and there it was: a clear image of a shipwreck with exposed beams lying on the sea floor.
"I was under the boat when my hand caught a lifebuoy that I clung to as the last resort," Kariem said of the shipwreck off Libya this summer.
"I walked in the sea till water reached my neck," he recalls of his August shipwreck.
Abraham Russom can count himself one of the lucky ones, if you consider it lucky to survive a shipwreck in which 366 fellow passengers died.
Six people are confirmed dead and prosecutors are investigating the ship's captain for manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck.
The perils facing migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to get to Europe across the Mediterranean has been underscored once again with another deadly shipwreck off the Libyan coast, in which as many as 700 people are feared dead.
