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Reports that divers recovered the body of a New Jersey man from the Upper Delaware River on July 25, 2004, the river's third victim of the year. Death of Michael Miranda who went swimming in the river with his friends on July 23 in a turbulent section of the river.

The article reports finding of two decomposed bodies in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, Central Park, New York, and talks of efforts of New York Police Department's chief of detectives, Robert K. Boyce to investigate any criminality and identify the dead.

The article reports that the Italian authorities recovered the remains of drowned migrants from a sunken fishing vessel in the Mediterranean sea.

Focuses on public reaction to the boating accident on New York's Lake George that killed five women from Temperance, Michigan. How the town is grieving for Viola P. Urbaniak, Virginia Ciesinski, Joyce Rochowiak, JoAnn Manore, and Beverly Becker who drowned with 15 others; Comment of Rev. Daniel C. Nusbaum, pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church; Background on the five women who were all widows and knew one another well.

Focuses on the inquiry into a fatal boating accident on Lake George that killed 20 elderly passengers. Indication that the captain of the tour boat Ethan Allen, who is named Richard Paris, was questioned by investigators; Comment of Mark V. Rosenker, acting chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board; The investigation's focus on the history of the boat, its operating record, and factors that could have contributed to the boat's capsizing, such as conditions of the lake, the vessel, and the captain; The use of a police scuba unit to search for articles that went down with the Ethan Allen.

Reports on the tragic sinking of the tour boat, Ethan Allen, at Lake George, New York and investigation into the boating accident that killed 20 of the 47 passengers. Indication that the cruise captain, Richard Paris, was a retired state trooper and had been a boat pilot for about 20 years; Involvement of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board in the investigation; Suggestion that the boat's seats were not anchored to the deck, but recovery of the boat showed wooden benches fixed to the floor; Comment from passenger Jeane Siler about not being aware of a wake.

Reports that some of the 20 drowning victims in the boating accident at Lake George, New York were seasoned travelers and good swimmers. The age range of the passengers, 54 to 89; The price of the cruise from Michigan to New England on the Ethan Allen, a tour boat that capsized; Idea that there was not logic to who drowned or who survived; Background on the victims and passengers who survived, including Francis W. Wrock, Viola P. Urbaniak, Charles Greenwald, Carol Ann Marsh, Anna May Hawley, Joyce Chapman, Earl Hawley, JoAnn Manore, Mary Helen Metz, Fred Metz, William Nadvornik, Marge Perry, and Ann Beamish.

The article reports on the grief of the parents of two-year old girl Ruhshona Kurbonova who drowned in the Prospect Park lake in Brooklyn, New York City on July 5, 2014.

The article reports on the recovery of 54 bodies from a river ferry that sank in central Bangladesh during a storm, however, most of the bodies were not yet identified.

The article reports on the Typhoon Bopha that hit the Philippines on December 4, 2012 leaving with 325 people dead and 379 people missing mostly in the province of Compostela Valley. It states that Typhoon Bopha with a packed winds of 100 miles per hour brings torrential rains that destroyed villages and left thousand homeless. Officials add that most of the typhoon's victims are drowned or hit by flying debris or falling trees.

The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving part of a ransom washed ashore with more than $150,000 in cash, a resident of Xarardheere, a coastal town, said Sunday. Five pirates drowned Friday when their small boat capsized after they received a reported $3 million ransom for releasing a Saudi oil tanker. Omar Abdi Hassan, the resident, said that one of the bodies had been found on a beach near Xarardheere and that his relatives were searching for the other four pirates. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Coast Guard says four survivors have been found after a fishing boat disappeared in the Aleutian Islands. A Coast Guard spokesman says two bodies have also been recovered. The search continues for the remaining five crew members of the 93-foot boat, the Katmai. The survivors were to be flown to an island about 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage. The Coast Guard received a distress signal from the boat, and search aircraft spotted two emergency strobe lights in the water and dropped two life rafts. But searchers saw no sign of the boat or its crew. The survivors and the two bodies were discovered on a subsequent inspection of the area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The bodies come and go with the tides. They wash up onto the riverbanks or float grotesquely downstream, almost always face down. They are all but ignored by the living. In the southern reaches of the Irrawaddy Delta, where the only access to hundreds of small villages is by boat, the remains of the victims of the May 3 cyclone that swept across Myanmar are rotting in the sun. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Little known outside his native Quebec, Claude Jutra was a spiritual brother of the great humanist filmmakers Jean Renoir, Vittorio de Sica and Satyajit Ray. Like them, he achieved the invisible technique that only master directors do, and he used that technique to erase the barriers between the audience and the people on screen, even the most appalling of them. Perhaps Jutra is so little known because of his aborted body of work. Trained as a doctor, he recognized in himself the symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer's and, in 1986 at the age of 56, drowned himself in the St. Lawrence River. His body was not found until the following spring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Four people died Sunday off the coast of Alaska when a commercial fishing boat carrying 47 people began sinking west of the remote port town of Dutch Harbor, officials with the Coast Guard said. Forty-two people were rescued by the Coast Guard about 120 miles west of Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands. One person remained missing on Sunday afternoon, and a search was being conducted with helicopters and a C-130 plane, officials said. One of the four died in the rescue operation, they said. The authorities on Sunday had not released the names of the four people who died or the missing person. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana has refused to take blame for the deaths of 35 patients who drowned at the nursing home St. Rita's during Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. In the homicide trial, Blanco repeatedly parried lawyers for the two accused owners of the nursing home, namely Salvador Mangano and Mabel Mangano. The owners encounter charges of negligent homicide in the deaths of 35 patients.

The article reports that a woman and two children died when their minivan rolled into Bunnell's pond in Bridgeport, Connecticut on July 4, 2007. The woman has been identified as Michelle McIntosh, whereas one of the dead children has been identified as David McIntosh. According to Michael Giannotti, spokesman for mayor John M. Fabrizi of Bridgeport, the van rolled into the pond after the woman got out of the van to talk to a group of people in another vehicle at Beardsley Park.

The article reports that five children got swept away in the heavy river flow who were participating in a volunteer appreciation event of a church in Missouri.

The article reports that a number of people have been killed due to heavy rains in Indonesia. The rains caused the landslide to crash into the village, which killed at least ten people and trapped many others.

Reports on the speculation of the death of Luis Peralta who was drowned in Coney Island, New York City, while at the beach with friends.

Reports that a drowned toddler in Idaho has been found to be breathing more than an hour after the child has been pronounced dead.

Examines the continuing efforts of police to recover the body of a man who allegedly fell through the ice of the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. Strangeness of the accident; Failure of police to find the body; Speculation as to whether the man actually died in the accident; Description of the lake; Conflicting reports of witnesses.

Reports on the recovery of twenty-month-old Mackayala Jespersen two hours after she was believed to have drowned in her family's swimming pool in Orange County, California.

Focuses on the discovery and identification of a body found floating in the East River in New York City. Investigation into the disappearance of Svetlana Aronov; Indication that she drowned; Question of whether she was murdered or committed suicide; Background on Aronov and her husband, both of whom came from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Reports that the New York Police Department filed administrative charges against the supervisor of a 911 operator who took a call from four teenage boys in a sinking rowboat off City Island in the Bronx, New York. Accusation that the supervisor mishandled the call and delayed efforts to rescue the teenagers; Events leading up to the sinking of the boat; Description of the telephone call that the operator received; Failure of the police and Coast Guard to be notified of the call.

Reports that seven-year-old Paolo Alexander Ayala, who disappeared from a friend's birthday party in Holmby Hills on June 2, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, was found two days later, dead at the bottom of the swimming pool at the same friend's home.

Highlights the number of people who may have drowned when a ferry sank in a storm on the Meghna River southeast of Dhaka, Bangladesh on May 3, 2002.

Reports on the number of people who died from drowning in a canal in Lagos, Nigeria after the residents fleed from an explosion at the main armory of the city.

Reports that bodies of drowned illegal would-be immigrants were found washed ashore trying to reach Spain on a Moroccan beach on September 9, 2001.

Reports on the recovery of the body of Jubeda Ahmed, one of the three New Jersey girls who drowned in the Atlantic Ocean in July 2001.

Features Anthony Dellavecchia, a Queens boy who was found unconscious in a swimming pool on May 15, 2000 in New York. Credit given by the authorities on the officer who revived the child; Information on the incidence.

Reports that several hundred people drowned in Lagos, Nigeria after the floodgates from the Jebba and Shiriro dams were unleashed in 1999. Implications of the opened floodgates; Number of the estimated death toll; Reason for opening the floodgates.

Focuses on the rate of alcohol-related drowning among men in Russia. Meaning of vodka; 1997 statistics of the drowning rate among men in Russia; Views of Martin Mckee, an expert on Russian mortality trends at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on Russia's weak public health measures.

Reports on the decline in the number of people who drowned in the United States from 1986 to 1996. Age group in which the largest declines in the drowning rates have occurred; Factors associated with the decline.

Focuses on the use of the Heimlich maneuver to purge water from the lungs of drowning victims. Concerns of Doctor Henry J. Heimlich on the maneuver; Application of the maneuver for the prevention of choking; How to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

Focuses on the drowning death of an 8-year-old Staten Island boy on his first day at summer camp. How the accident occurred during an outing at a water park in Keansburg, New Jersey; How there were four lifeguards on duty at the pool.

Reports that seven-year-old twin brothers, Trevor and Kyle Gasper, drowned when they fell through thin ice on frozen Sodus Bay in New York City, New York. Details on the incident and when it occurred.

Reports that nine-year-old Craig Brower drowned on January 11, 1998 in Millstone, New Jersey after the vehicle he was in rolled into the Rising Sun Valley Pond. Details on the incident; Involvement of a 1987 Ford Bronco in Brower's accidental death.

Reports that a group of five teenagers were swept away down a rain-swollen wash into the Rio Hondo on November 26, 1997 in Rosemead, California. Information on the deaths of two teenagers; How two of the teenagers were saved, while the fifth teenager could not be found.

Shows rescue workers carrying the body of a Boy Scout drowned while trying to cross Wilson Creek, near Edgemont, North Carolina.

Reports on the discovery of the bodies of 2 Cubans in the Panama Canal. Death due to drowning.

Informs that seven people drowned in John D. Long Lake in Union, South Carolina while visiting the site where Susan Smith drowned her two young sons in the Fall of 1994. Victims including the Phillips family from nearby Buffalo, South Carolina; Police calling the drownings accidental; Comments from Union County Sheriff Howard Wells; Details of the incident.

Reports that 10-month-old Roselynn Johnson drowned on September 12, 1997 in Rochester, New York in a bucket which was half-filled with soapy water. Details on the incident.

Reports that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Phoenix, Arizona, declared that heiress Margaret Lesher Thorstenson drowned accidentally on May 14, in Bartlett Lake, while on a fishing trip with her husband, Collin Thorstenson. Why Collin was formally suspected in his wife's death.

Reports that 14-year-old Lucretia Narsing was pulled out into he ocean on June 20, 1997 at Rockaway Beach in New York City by strong tide and was lost. Identification of the girl's friends with her at the time of the incident; Information on the search for the girl.

States that three family members drowned on April 25, 1997, in the surf of Point Sur, Big Sur, California. Names of victims; How drownings occurred; Purpose of victims' travel to Big Sur.

Reports that an autopsy conducted on Patrick McNeill Jr., a Fordham University student whose body was found floating near a Brooklyn pier in New York City, revealed that he died from drowning. Findings from the autopsy; Uncertainty concerning the drowning.

Reports on the findings of investigators concluding that no one was at the wheel when a truck rolled into the John D. Long Lake in Union, South Carolina in August 1996.