In 1983 DeGeorge said that a 47-foot boat sank off the coast of California after a mysterious explosion in the galley.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

The process of scrapping a fishing boat which sank off the Isle of Man 13 years ago, with the loss of seven lives, will begin next month.

BBC: Solway Harvester scrapping process to begin

An investigation into claims that a US nuclear submarine accidentally sank a French fishing boat in 2004, killing five sailors, is to be reopened.

BBC: France probes US submarine link to fishing boat sinking

Australia has called off its rescue operation for survivors of a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank near Indonesia's Java Island.

BBC: Australia calls off search for asylum survivors

In June, a boat with 200 asylum seekers sank near the island - 17 bodies were found and another 70 were feared dead after a three-day search.

BBC: Australia to increase refugee intake to 20,000 annually

The last edition of the race, which finished in 2006, saw the death of one sailor, who was washed overboard, and the rescue of a Spanish crew after their boat sank.

BBC: Walker to set sail in Volvo race

Six years later DeGeorge and a business associate, Paul Ebeling, were aboard a 57-foot racing vessel off the coast of Genoa, Italy one dark night when the boat hit a submerged object and sank.

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Floating in a life raft near the vessel were DeGeorge, Paul Ebeling--who had been with DeGeorge when boat number two sank in 1976 and was now the chief executive of a DeGeorge-controlled company--and a third man, Gabriel Falco.

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Torpedoed by a U-boat in May, 1915, the Cunard liner sank in eighteen minutes too short an interval, in other words, to generate stories.

NEWYORKER: Unsinkable

As rescuers continue to search the waters off Hong Kong following a fatal boat collision, survivors describe the moment of impact and the chaos that followed as the Lamma IV pleasure boat sank.

BBC: Hong Kong collision: Survivors' stories