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In this image taken from video, a cable car carrying six children and two adults dangles hundreds of feet above the ground in the remote Battagram district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday. The occupants were trapped for hours until they were freed by Pakistan Army commandos using helicopters and a makeshift chairlift.

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All 8 people who were trapped in a dangling cable car in Pakistan have been rescued

2:24pm August 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

A cable car carrying six children and two adults dangled hundreds of feet above the ground in a remote part of Pakistan after it broke. Army commandos rescued them after an hourslong operation.

Videos posted to social media showed ride operators desperately trying to free the stuck Fireball Roller Coaster Sunday in Crandon, Wis.

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Roller coaster riders were trapped upside down for hours after mechanical failure

11:22am July 05, 2023

by Emily Olson

The oscillating Fireball was just sliding down from its vertical loop at a festival in Crandon, Wis., on Sunday when it stopped unexpectedly, suspending its passengers for hours.

The Kuzma Minin was grounded Tuesday morning a few hundred feet from a British beach. Smaller boats were eventually able to help pull it free.

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Russian Cargo Ship Runs Aground In U.K.

3:24pm December 18, 2018

by Ian Stewart

The 600-foot long ship was stranded just a few hundred feet from shore. Curious onlookers gathered onshore to watch rescue operations near the English city of Falmouth.

Susie Goodall on her boat DHL Starlight on July 1 at the start of the solo around-the-world Golden Globe Race.

Cargo Ship Saves 29-Year-Old Sailor In South Pacific After Her Boat Flips

2:51pm December 08, 2018

by Ian Stewart

On Wednesday, Susie Goodall was 2,000 miles west of South America when her boat capsized in heavy wind, breaking its mast and knocking her unconscious.

Aldi Novel Adilang's floating fishing hut was spotted by a passing cargo ship, the MV Arpeggio, after drifting at sea for more than a month.

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19-Year-Old Survives 49 Days At Sea After Floating Hut Drifts To Guam

3:23pm September 24, 2018

by Bill Chappell

After he ran out of cooking gas, Aldi Novel Adilang started using wood from his craft to cook fish. He drifted from Indonesia to waters around Guam.

The conning tower of the ARA San Juan submarine shown as the vessel is being delivered to the Argentine Navy after an extensive refit in Buenos Aires, in May 2014.

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Bad Weather Hampers Search For Missing Argentine Submarine

4:12am November 20, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The ARA San Juan disappeared last week off the coast of Patagonia. Argentine officials say that they can't confirm that satellite signals received over the weekend came from the sub.

Jennifer Appel (left) and Tasha Fuiava are interviewed aboard the USS Ashland in the South Pacific on Oct. 25. They were rescued after reportedly drifting for months while trying to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti.

After Navy Rescue Of Sailors Adrift At Sea, The Story Gets Stranger

3:39pm October 31, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Two sailors who said they drifted thousands of miles off course were picked up in the Pacific last week by the U.S. Navy. But it turns out the women had an emergency beacon they never turned on.

Volunteers unload one of 35 dogs flown from Texas shelters to Seattle in Hurricane Harvey's aftermath. The dogs arriving in Seattle were already in Texas shelters when Harvey hit and are being transferred so animals displaced by the flooding can be cared

From Hawk To Horse: Animal Rescues During Hurricane Harvey

12:48pm August 31, 2017

by Barbara J. King

A storm of this magnitude affects many animals. Uplifting videos show people rescuing all kinds of animals from Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.

A rescue helicopter takes off towards the Mont-Blanc cable car during a rescue operation on Friday in Courmayeur, Italy. The cable car restarted Friday morning, and the remaining tourists were rescued without the use of helicopters.

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After Cable Cars Got Stuck In The Alps, Dozens Spent Night Suspended In Midair

7:41am September 09, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Helicopters managed to extract 65 people from the gondolas late on Thursday — but then night fell, and the remaining trapped tourists had to wait until morning to be rescued.

The King Jacob, a Portuguese-flagged cargo vessel, was the first ship to arrive near the migrant boat that sank off the Libyan coast over the weekend. The boat had been carrying more than 800 people.

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Merchant Ships Called On To Aid Migrants In Mediterranean Feel The Strain

6:13pm April 24, 2015

by Jackie Northam

Commercial ships have rescued tens of thousands of migrants trying to cross by boat to Europe from Africa and the Middle East. But the vessels and their crews aren't equipped to handle these missions.

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