Dramatic moment Indian coastguard airlifts sailors off a sinking ship as huge waves break over the deck and threaten to sweep them away MV Mangalem raised alarm as vessel started taking on water off coast of India Coastguard advised all 16 crew members to stay aboard and wait for rescuers Two helicopters winched them aboard … Read more
Mexico City is sinking at an ‘unstoppable’ with some parts decompressing up to 20 inches a year over the past decades. A new report highlights centuries of pumping water from the aquifer under North America’s most populous city that has caused its foundation to compress at an alarming rate. The city was built on what what … Read more
MR MONEY MAKER: Spread your risk with the Personal Assets Investment Trust to avoid that sinking feeling By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2021 What’s happening? Welcome to spring – and, as with the British weather, the outlook for markets is … Read more
Town where Lovecraft lurks round every corner: PETER HOSKIN reviews The Sinking City – Deluxe Edition and Persona 5 – Strikers By Peter Hoskin For The Daily Mail Published: 02:05 GMT, 26 February 2021 | Updated: 02:05 GMT, 26 February 2021 The Sinking City: Deluxe Edition (Playstation 5 – £53.99) Rating: Lovecraft? Then you’re going … Read more
Moment driver is rescued from sinking pickup truck after it rolled off edge of towpath into the River Thames A pick up truck rolled into the River Thames in Henley earlier this morning The driver was rescued from his cab by a passer by who risked their life The fire brigade arrived at the scene … Read more
Got that sinking feeling! Rescue mission fails as tide swamps digger that got stuck on a beach… while trying to move a stranded truck The digger was sent to the front to save a truck from the incoming tide at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset While the truck was eventually moved, the digger got stuck instead and remained … Read more
FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more
Nigel Farage accused Piers Morgan of ‘sinking to the gutter,’ in what he declared ‘the lowest grade interview in 20 years,’ during a heated debate on whether Donald Trump told people to inject bleach to beat Covid-19. The Brexit Party-leader was appearing live from the Trump Hotel in Washington DC as part of Good Morning … Read more
The RMS Titanic may have only taken the exact fateful course that saw it holed and sunk by an iceberg on April 15, 1912 because a solar flare threw off the vessel’s compass readings, a study has proposed. According to a US-based meteorologist, the liner’s last night sailing the Atlantic was illuminated by the aurora borealis — … Read more
Quick-thinking father deliberately rams his sinking boat onto rocks to rescue his baby and three children A father deliberately ran his sinking boat aground to allow his family escape The man was with his family near Torquay when the vessel started taking water Several teenagers assisted the family scramble onto the rocks and off the … Read more