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Bloop: Kenya plans to give new meaning to the term ‘tourist dive’
KENYA

Africa’s first underwater museum set to open in Kenya

The museum stretches along the coast from Lamu to Malinda and showcases shipwrecks and their stories in a unique ecosystem

  • Gitonga Njeru
3 min read
Harrison Odjegba Okene looks in awe as a rescue diver surfaces into the air pocket which has kept Okene alive for nearly three days.
HARRISON ODJEGBA OKENE

Nigerian survives three days at bottom of Atlantic Ocean

Harrison Odjegba Okene, a sunken tugboat’s cook, managed to suvive three days by breathing a dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket in the wreck.

  • Michelle Faul
5 min read
Divers recovered corpses inside the wreckage at a depth of more than 50m and brought them to shore in body bags. (Reuters)
AFP

EU commissioner says Europe must ‘step up’ after migrant shipwreck

The EU’s Jose Manuel Barroso has pledged to rebuild Italian refugee centres after the migrant shipwreck on Italy’s shores that claimed 302 people.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
Divers recovered corpses inside the wreckage at a depth of more than 50m and brought them to shore in body bags. (Reuters)
ITALY

Italy: Over 100 dead, 200 missing in migrant shipwreck

More than 100 people drowned and over 200 were unaccounted for after a boat packed caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.

  • Reuters
4 min read
NAMIBIA

Scientists study 16th-century shipwreck in Namibia

A treasure-laden 16th-century Portuguese vessel that ran aground off Namibia’s Atlantic coast was hailed on Monday by archaeologists.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
BARTOLOMEU DIAS

Mystery Namibian shipwreck dates from 16th century

A mystery shipwreck laden with gold discovered off the coast of Namibia in April is a 16th-century Portuguese vessel that was bound for Asia.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read