May 8, 2022
Society, Very Mix
One hundred and six migrants, including 20 children, were located by the Greek Coast Guard in a rocky area northwest of the island of Kos late on Saturday.Kos and were transferred to the Kos Identification Center. A sailing boat was found to have half-sunk on the shore where the migrants …
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May 2, 2022
Society, Very Mix
For 63 years nobody knew what had happened to motor-ship “Three Hierarchs” that sank together with 9 crew members off the island of Makronissos on February 14, 1959. Now the shipwreck was located and identified by the research team of Costas Thoktaridis with the aid of the underwater robotic vehicle …
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March 1, 2022
Very Mix
A shipwreck with six dead so far has occurred in the sea off the coast of Lesvos, near the PPC factory in Epano Skala, Mytilene. It is suggested that there was a shipwreck as so far, the boat has not been located, nor was there any distress signal to authorities. …
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January 8, 2022
FEATURED, Refugees
The body of a young child was washed up on a beach of the island of Naxos on Saturday. Authorities suggest the child was one more victim of the recent shipwrecks with migrants in the central Aegean Sea. It is the third body of a child washed up on the …
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January 7, 2022
Refugees
The bodies of two children are among the four washed up on the beaches of the islands of Naxos and Paros in the central Aegean Sea on Thursday. The children are girls and estimated to be 12-13 years old. The Greek Coast Guard estimates they belong to the victims of …
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December 22, 2021
Politics, Refugees
A big Search And Rescue operation is under way in the sea area south of the island of Folegandros in the Cyclades after the sinking of a plastic boat carrying migrants to Greece from Turkey. Twelve people have been rescued, so far, some 32 are estimated to be missing. According …
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November 4, 2021
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A rare and unique shipwreck form the Classical Era has been revealed during the marine survey for the Crete-Peloponnese subsea interconnection, the Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO) announced on Thursday. The rare shipwreck was revealed while surveying the seabed near the island of Kythera for the construction of Crete-Peloponnese subsea …
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May 17, 2021
Archeology, Culture
The underwater archaeological site off the island of Alonissos, the Peristera Shipwreck, will open to visitors on June 1, 2021, the Greek Culture Ministry said in a statement. The first underwater museum in Greece was inaugurated off the coast of the island of Alonisos, Sporades, last summer. The Shipwreck Peristera …
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March 18, 2021
Refugees
A 25-year-old Afghan father and his young son attempted the perilous sea journey from Turkey to Greece to seek asylum in Europe. The boy died after their boat struck rocks. The father has been charged with child endangerment. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in prison. “The charges …
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December 2, 2020
Greece
Two women are missing and 32 people, among them three children, have been rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants sank or overturned off the island of Lesvos on Wednesday morning. 15 men, 14 women and 3 children were located off Palios by Mandamados during a routine patrol of the Greek …
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October 5, 2020
environment
Firefighters struggled all night to bring the wildfire in Volimes, Zakynthos under control. The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon near the village Volimes on Zakynthos and burned a pine forest over the popular beach of the famous shipwreck Navagio. The firefighters set the blaze under control at very adverse …
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August 26, 2020
Refugees
In a large Search and Rescue operation, the Greek Coast Guard and the Navy managed to rescue 96 people from a sinking boat that was transferring refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece. It is believed that the boat was carrying over 100 people. Among them there were 10 children …
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July 12, 2020
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The water museum of Alonissos with the famous amphorae shipwreck of 5th century BC opens for amateur divers and free diving divers from August to September 2020. The water museum is located on the site of the ancient shipwreck off the islet of Peristera, off its rocky shore on the …
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February 13, 2020
FEATURED, Tourism
The famous shipwreck of Zakynthos is in … Turkey! This has been claimed by a German travel website selling holiday packages to several countries. Advertising a holiday package to the Bodrum area in the Turkish South-West coast, the website staff uploaded a picture of the most photographed landscape of Greece:the …
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October 27, 2018
environment
The 6.8R earthquake that stroke the island of Zakynthos early Friday morning has caused new rockslides at famous shipwreck beach Navagio that attracts thousands of tourists every year. The impact of earthquake to the beach was revealed by Efthymios Lekkas, Geology Professor and head of the Greek Earthquake Panning and …
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October 23, 2018
Archeology
Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the world’s oldest intact shipwreck. The ancient Greek shipwreck has been lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years at the bottom of the Black Sea. The ship wreck is similar to Odysseus’s vessel as featured on an Ancient Greek pottery found in …
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September 22, 2018
Tourism, Travel
Famous Navagio beach, the Zakynthos shipwreck, was opened to public again, a week after a rockfall on the left side of the shipwreck forced its closure. The opening of the shipwreck beach is under certain restrictions though. According to state broadcaster ERT, the port authorities lifted the ban on Zakynthos …
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September 14, 2018
Tourism, Travel
Thousands of tourists will be able to admire the famous Zakynthos Shipwreck from afar after Port Authorities forbade both anchoring of boats and swimming in the area following the cliff collapse on Thursday. Port Authorities on the island of Zakynthos have issued a decision forbidding the sailing of and anchoring …
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September 13, 2018
Video GRID
People narrowly escapes death when the cliff collapses at the beach of Zakynthos shipwreck on Thursday morning. Three people sitting on a boat seem to escape the rock slide in the last moment. A woman tries to hold on an overturned boat. A man tries to reach her but nature …
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July 18, 2018
Refugees
For one more time, the sea becomes the deep blue grave for men, women and children trying to flee the conflict in Syria and seek a better, peaceful life. At least 19 people were drowned when a boat carrying 150 refugees and migrants sank off Yalusa located in the occupied …
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