14.04.1912
RMS Titanic - one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history
Collided with an iceberg during her maiden voyage
Human victims - 1513-14
26.12.1943
Scharnhorst (German battleship)
Human victims - 1964
01.04.1945
Awa Maru (Japanese ocean liner)
Human victims - 2 000
03.06.1979
Gulf of Mexico
Well Ixtoc I blew out, spilling 140 mln. gallons of crude oil
30.03.1980
Stavanger, Norway
Floating hotel on the North Sea collapsed, killing 123 oil workers
20.12.1987
MV Dona Paz (Philippine-registered passenger ferry)
Human victims - 1749 (officially), more than 4 000 (according to unofficial reports)
15.12.1991
Salem Express ferryboat (many of the passengers were returning home from a religious pilgrimage to Mecca)
Human victims 690 (officially), 1600 (according to unofficial reports)
12.12.1999
French Atlantic Coast
Tanker Erik broke apart and sank off Brittany, spilling 3 mln. gallons of oil
06.09.2009
MV Superferry (sank near the Philippines)
On board there were 968 passengers, the number of those been killed is unknown.
10.07.2011
Volga River (Russia) boat accident
129 killed in a heavy storm, including 27 children
31.07.2011
Off the island of Lampedusa
25 died of asphyxiation
27.11.2011
The Swanland cargo ship sunk 30km south of Holyhead, Wales
6 of 8 Russian crew members went missing
18.12.2011
200 km off Sakhalin
The Kolskaya oil rig capsized
At least 33 people have died
15.01.2012
In west Cork
Trawler sank in rough seas
Five men drowned