BOAT CARRYING 11 SINKS NEAR MARINA, DROWNING COUPLE.Byline: David Royse Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A pleasure boat carrying 11 people took on water and then sunk under a barge barge, large boat, generally flat-bottomed, used for transporting goods. Most barges on inland waterways are towed, but some river barges are self-propelled. There are also sailing barges. just 100 yards from a Coast Guard cutter cutter, small, one-masted sailing vessel, with a rig similar to that of a sloop except that it usually has a sliding bowsprit and a topmast. From 1800 to 1830 cutters were in service between England and France. Sunday, killing a German couple. The U.S. Coast Guard boat was responding when a strong current caused the 25-foot boat to nose-dive under the barge at about 2:30 p.m., Petty Officer David French David French was born in 1939. When David was six years old he moved to Toronto from Coley’s Point Newfoundland. During his young school years David was a sport fanatic, he did not enjoy the academic side of school. said. ``All of them began bailing, and then they began slipping underneath the barge,'' he said. ``It happened really fast.'' The pleasure boat went under the barge and came out the other side, engines still running and ``semi-refloated,'' French said. The body of Josef Federl, 62, was dragged out of the water by a tug boat crew, who tried to revive him, officials said. The body of his wife, Maria Anna Federl, 58, was found wedged wedged - 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few under the barge. They were from Roth, Germany, officials said. The Coast Guard rescued the rest from the water, including a family of five with three children ages 7, 9 and 12. Their relationship to the dead was not known. ``Those at the scene said they saw life jackets floating everywhere but on the people,'' French said. |
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