Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

08.01.2026, Tallinn. Rescue efforts for a coastal defense training vessel "Juku" that sank during the cold and stormy weather on December 30. Photo Tairo Lutter, Postimees

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

08.01.2026, Tallinn. Rescue efforts for a coastal defense training vessel "Juku" that sank during the cold and stormy weather on December 30. Photo Tairo Lutter, Postimees

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

08.01.2026, Tallinn. Rescue efforts for a coastal defense training vessel "Juku" that sank during the cold and stormy weather on December 30. Photo Tairo Lutter, Postimees

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

08.01.2026, Tallinn. Rescue efforts for a coastal defense training vessel "Juku" that sank during the cold and stormy weather on December 30. Photo Tairo Lutter, Postimees

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

08.01.2026, Tallinn. Rescue efforts for a coastal defense training vessel "Juku" that sank during the cold and stormy weather on December 30. Photo Tairo Lutter, Postimees

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

Rescue efforts for storm-sunk ship

08.01.2026, Tallinn. Rescue efforts for a coastal defense training vessel "Juku" that sank during the cold and stormy weather on December 30. Photo Tairo Lutter, Postimees

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

Third Day Of Search For The Six Missing After A Yacht Sank - Italy

The search for the missing continues on the yacht sunk off the coast of Ponticello due to a whirlwind, Italy on August 20, 2024. Photo by Alessandro Fucarini/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Jingtu Monastery

Jingtu Monastery

YINGXIAN, CHINA - JULY 9, 2024 - Photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows sunk panel inside the Grand Hall of the Jingtu Monastery in Yingxian county, North China's Shanxi Province.

Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being transported by a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan, before being sent down to the sea floor. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later.

Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being sent down to the sea floor with 30-ton concrete blocks from a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later.

Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being sent down to the sea floor with 30-ton concrete blocks from a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later.

69th anniv. of end of Okinawa battle marked

69th anniv. of end of Okinawa battle marked

NAHA, Japan - Family members of the victims aboard ships sunk by bombings and torpedo attacks during World War II pray at a memorial service in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on June 23, 2014, the 69th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa. Approximately 2,000 Okinawa Prefecture residents on 25 ships were commemorated.

Search for sunk vessel continued

Search for sunk vessel continued

HIRADO, Japan - A fellow vessel of the Daiei Maru No. 11, a 135-ton round-haul netter that capsized and sank off Hirado Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 14, heads to the accident site to conduct a search on April 15, with relatives of the Daiei Maru's 12 missing crew members.

New 'Iwakimaru' vessel completed in Fukushima

New 'Iwakimaru' vessel completed in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - A newly built fisheries research vessel "Iwakimaru" is unveiled in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. The previous "Iwakimaru" was sunk by the 2011 tsunami.

New 'Iwakimaru' device to measure seafloor radioactivity

New 'Iwakimaru' device to measure seafloor radioactivity

IWAKI, Japan - A device that is capable of measuring radioactivity of substances on the seafloor is photographed in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. The device is installed in a new version of the fisheries research vessel "Iwakimaru." The previous "Iwakimaru" was sunk by the 2011 tsunami.

Buddhist priest recalls tragedy of WWII ship sunk by U.S.

Buddhist priest recalls tragedy of WWII ship sunk by U.S.

SAPPORO, Japan - Masayoshi Asahi, a Buddhist priest in Akkeshi, eastern Hokkaido, shown in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014, remembers chanting sutras for some 2,800 victims of the Imperial Japanese Army's freighter Nichiren Maru, sunk by a U.S. submarine attack off the town in March 1944 during World War II.

Cape looking out Pacific site of WWII ship sunk by U.S.

Cape looking out Pacific site of WWII ship sunk by U.S.

SAPPORO, Japan - A young couple stands on a lookout platform on Aug. 9, 2014, at Cape Aikappu in Akkeshi, eastern Hokkaido, overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the Imperial Japanese Army's freighter Nichiren Maru was sunk by a U.S. submarine attack in March 1944 during World War II, killing some 2,800 people aboard.

Wreckage of exploded tanker pulled out of water

Wreckage of exploded tanker pulled out of water

OSAKA, Japan - The Shoko Maru, an oil tanker sunk into the sea after an explosion in May 2014, is being salvaged off Himeji port in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on July 23, 2014, to investigate the cause of the blast.