Boating Accident In The News

PETALING JAYA: "I will love you always" were the last words that Bishop Julius Danaraj Paul, 63, texted to his wife Alice Santha Paul from South America before a boating accident in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, took his life on Sunday.

The conviction of an Auckland boatie who failed to check his craft was seaworthy before embarking on an ill-fated family boating trip highlights the need for all skippers to conduct pre-launch safety checks, says Maritime New Zealand (MNZ).

On Saturday night a car crashed into a power pole outside a Marlborough vineyard. Eleven-thousand volt power lines were loosened in the collision, and when 18-year-old Samantha Hemi got out of the car and stepped onto one of the lines, she was killed.

A father whose two young children drowned in a boating tragedy has been sentenced to community service for operating a vessel in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk.

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - After two weeks of fighting for her life, a pre-school teacher who fell off a second story balcony in downtown Charleston is dead. The Charleston County Coroner's office says 24-year-old Courtney Harbaugh died at MUSC last night of blunt force trauma.

Record of verdicts and settlements reached in auto accident, medical malpractice and other injury cases. (PRWeb Nov 28, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1674314.htm

A Wellington group has vowed to fight plans to build a flyover near the iconic Basin Reserve.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 29, the 334th day of 2008. There are 32 days left in the year.

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Suzanne Lawler • (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) • November 23, 2008 • 4:45 am