US Coast Guard says vessel carrying as many as 200 Haitians capsizes near Turks and Caicos

September 6th, 2009 MANILA - Twenty people were missing Monday after the vessel in which they were travelling sank off the coast of Eastern Samar province in the Philippines, media reports said. The Panama-registered vessel was carrying two South Koreans and 18 Filipinos at the time of the accident.

July 31st, 2009 Anxious wait in Haiti for survivors of capsizingCAP HAITIEN, Haiti — Dozens of anxious Haitians waited at an airport Thursday to learn whether family members were among the survivors of a sailboat packed with migrants that struck a coral reef and broke apart, killing at least 15 people and leaving dozens missing. Relatives of the migrants and a few repatriated survivors stood for hours in the tropical sun at the airport in Cap Haitien, including one woman who carried a photo of her 18-year-old son.

July 31st, 2009 Turks and Caicos police probe Haitian smugglingPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands are questioning Haitian survivors from a capsized migrant vessel in hopes of identifying those responsible for the smuggling operation. Deputy police commissioner Hubert Hughes says the survivors remaining in the British territory will not be sent back to Haiti until the interviews are completed, possibly this weekend.

July 30th, 2009 Shipwrecked Haitians tell of ordeal as search endsPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — The young man was weak and alone when searchers found him on an uninhabited island shortly before authorities ended the hunt for victims of the sinking of a rickety sailboat crowded with people fleeing Haiti's poverty. Fifteen migrants were confirmed dead, 118 were rescued and about 70 others remained missing when the U.S.

July 30th, 2009 Haitians risk tragedy on sea excursions to AmericaMIAMI — The tragedies happen with alarming regularity in the waters near Florida: Haitian immigrants seeking a better life pay hundreds, if not thousands, to crowd onto filthy, rickety boats with little food or water. The vessels run aground and break up on jagged reefs, or capsize during the difficult multi-day voyage, leaving many migrants to spend their final moments in the very seas they had hoped would carry them to a fresh start.

July 30th, 2009 Island police keep up search for Haitian survivorsPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Police boats circled an uninhabited island Thursday looking for dozens of Haitian migrants missing from a deadly shipwreck, but rescuers had little hope of finding any survivors as the search entered its fourth day. The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search late Wednesday afternoon after a 52-hour operation that covered more than 1,500 square miles (3,800 square kilometers) of ocean.

July 29th, 2009 PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Search teams waited anxiously for daylight Wednesday to resume the hunt for nearly 70 Haitians missing after a handmade wooden sailboat splintered on a reef and spilled nearly 200 poor migrants into rough seas. More than 100 survivors who clung to wreckage or razor-sharp reefs for hours in the waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands were plucked out by rescue boats Monday night and Tuesday — five managed to swim 2 miles (3 kilometers) to shore.

July 29th, 2009 Hopes dim for missing Haitian shipwreck victimsPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Rescue teams scanned the clear blue waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands Wednesday with fading hopes of finding dozens of Haitian migrants whose sailboat struck a reef and shattered in the waves. Authorities have rescued more than 100 people, some clinging to the sharp reefs that surround the Atlantic archipelago, but "the more time the human body spends in the water, the opportunity for survival grows less," said U.S.

July 28th, 2009 List of maritime disasters over the decadesSome of the deadliest and most famous civilian maritime disasters: —July 26 or 27, 2009: A sailboat overloaded with Haitian migrants capsizes off the Turks and Caicos Islands. Police recover 11 bodies and about 70 people are believed to be missing.

July 28th, 2009 Dozens missing after Haitian boat sinks; 15 deadPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Rescuers searched by sea and air Tuesday for nearly 70 Haitians after an overloaded sailboat ran aground and capsized in reef-studded waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands, killing at least 15 migrants fleeing the poverty of their homeland. The boat was carrying an estimated 200 people — men, women and teenagers — when it struck a coral reef and broke apart in rough seas near West Caicos, part of an archipelago that has proven to be deadly for Haitians in rickety vessels.

July 28th, 2009 Boat with Haitians capsizes, 113 saved, 85 missing PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — An overloaded sailboat carrying Haitian migrants sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and as many as 85 people are missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.

July 28th, 2009 Haitian boat capsizes; 113 saved, dozens missingPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — The U.S. Coast Guard used boats, airplanes and a helicopter to search the warm, shallow waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday for some 70 Haitians believed missing after their overloaded sailboat capsized.

May 14th, 2009 9 dead, 17 rescued after boat sinks off Fla. coastMIAMI BEACH, Fla.

May 13th, 2009 9 dead after boat carrying migrants sinks off Fla.MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — At least nine people are dead after a boat carrying Haitian migrants sank off the Florida coast, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.

May 13th, 2009 Officials: Fla. boat flips, 28 migrants thrownMIAMI — Coast Guard officials in Florida say they are responding to a report that a boat capsized and threw about 28 migrants into the water off the Fort Lauderdale coast.