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The jump began as a routine skydiving exercise, part of a convention of 420 parachutists sponsored by Skydive Arizona, but it quickly turned into a test of nerve, instinct and courage, carried out within seconds. Moments after he went out the open hatch of a four-engine DC-4 airplane...
Inside, divers found that the original death toll of 134 was sadly understated. Crews discovered more than 110 bodies in addition to the 61 recovered on the night of the disaster, and authorities said the final total could approach 200. Divers found one young couple locked in a final embrace...
Two huge floating cranes edged next to the exposed hull of the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise, while salvage experts scampered along rails and divers plunged into the frigid oil-fouled waters in search of corpses. The vessel, which overturned just outside the harbor of Zeebrugge, Belgium, has become a...
"Divers told us they have seen...a great number of victims inside the ship," Vanneste said.
Raymond Nossent, a spokesman for Townsend Thoresen, the ferry's owners, said divers were still finding survivors in air pockets inside the ship more than six hours after the accident.