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America's Cup boat capsizes in San Francisco Bay

The 11 other people on board were transferred to a support boat operated by Oracle Racing, which is defending its America's Cup title from last year in San Francisco this summer.

Boats at Lake Waco to be checked for zebra mussels

Workers will be on the lookout for boats that have visited zebra mussel-infested lakes in the Great Lakes, Oklahoma and Texas, including Lake Texoma and Lake Ray Roberts.

Small oil leak as boat hits wellhead off La. coast

Company President Bruce Vincent said the wellhead about a mile offshore is ringed with containment boom, which also was set along the shore, and two skimmer boats were at work.

Search for boat, missing family ends off Calif.

"The caller said they had to abandon the boat and were trying to tie together a makeshift life raft out of a cooler and life-preserver ring, a method taught in survival classes.

Boat with 2 men runs aground after days adrift

Officials say 86-year-old Francis Saunders and 71-year-old Jerry Willis were heading to Grand Bahama Island when their boat lost power.

Whaling activists: Boats collide near Antarctica

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson says he was aboard the ship Steve Irwin on Wednesday when the Japanese boat Nisshin Maru collided with it and with the Bob Barker.

US Fish and Wildlife boat sinks in Kodiak harbor

The boat is 16 feet wide and drafts 6 feet.

Denmark school sentenced for fatal boat accident

The boat capsized, gym teacher Michael Joergensen died and seven teenagers had to be put in induced comas for treatment.

No charges in NY boat accident that killed 3 kids

The children and two dozen other people were on a 34-foot-long motor yacht to watch Independence Day fireworks off Oyster Bay when the boat overturned and sank.

Injuries reported as boat strikes NYC dock

The New York Fire Department says 10 to 15 people are being evaluated for possible injuries after a boat struck a dock in lower Manhattan.

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