Boat

At least 58 people going to a funeral died after their overloaded river boat capsized in the Central African Republic's capital Bangui, the head of civil protection said on Saturday.

"We were able to extract 58 lifeless bodies," Thomas Djimasse told Radio Guira. "We don't know the total number of people who are underwater.

Tour boats that take thousands of holidaymakers on a cruise every year are getting ready to meet with the sea in Adrasan, which fascinates one with its turquoise blue color and unique beauty in the Kumluca district of the southern province of Antalya.

Old-style single-masted boats are being built for tourism purposes at a historic dock in the Black Sea province of Bartın, where galleys and galleons were built for the Ottoman navy after the 1500s, for the first time in 50 years.

The purpose of the expedition is to prove Herodotus' information about trade contacts between ancient Egypt and peoples along the Black Sea coast during the prehistoric era, reports BNT. 

The boat ABORA 4 will travel 3,000 kilometres in the next 3 months.

On the edge of Lake Varna in Bulgaria, an unusual looking vessel is under construction as a team of Europeans and Bolivians race to complete their work, binding, packing and cutting reeds under the burning Bulgarian sun, reports Deutsche Welle.

The aim — to complete the reed boat and sail it 3000 kilometers to Cyprus.

I met Stefano Benazzo recently in the port city of Piraeus thanks to an introduction from our common friend Annika Barbarigos, secretary-general of the Association of Traditional Boats.

A search on a sailboat that had to be towed to safety off the southern Aegean island of Nisyros Friday after running into mechanical problems turned up 700 kilograms of unprocessed cannabis.

Two foreign nationals were arrested on Wednesday on board a German-flagged sailboat by coast guard officers off Crete on charges they were illegally searching for antiquities.

A group of people on board a tourist boat in the Aegean resort of Bodrum attempted to illegally cross to the Greek island of Kos after taking the crew hostage early on June 4, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The European Union wants China to help prevent migrants and refugees using Chinese-made inflatable boats to get into the bloc by stopping the boats reaching them, the European Commissioner for Migration said on Thursday.