The old man contorted himself aboard, rolling his body across the gunwale so quickly, that, even while it started to capsize, his weight was across the danger-point and counterbalancing the canoe to its proper equilibrium.

With our large sails and the healthy breeze romping up the Carquinez Straits, we found that our sailing was what is called "ticklish." We had to be constantly on the alert to avoid a capsize, and while Charley steered I held the main-sheet in my hand with but a single turn round a pin, ready to let go at any moment.

said Flask, coiling some spare line in the boat's bow, did you never hear that the ship which but once has a Sperm Whale's head hoisted on her starboard side, and at the same time a Right Whale's on the larboard; did you never hear, Stubb, that that ship can never afterwards capsize? Why not?

Occasionally the projecting out-riggers of their slight shallops running foul of one another, would become entangled beneath the water, threatening to capsize the canoes, when a scene of confusion would ensue that baffles description.

The spritsail filled with the wind, suddenly, careening the frail open craft till it seemed it would surely capsize. A whitecap foamed above it and broke across in a snow-white smother.

One end was cracked and dented from the capsize of the wagon in Rock Canyon.

Then there were the boat boys, with minds fully made up to drown him by accident at the first opportunity to capsize the cutter.

In another boat capsize incident in the sea near the Ibrahim Hyderi Jetty of Karachi in May this year two people were drowned.

Woman drowns, 14 rescued in Leyte boat capsize !-- -- Miriam Desacada (The Philippine Star) - July 17, 2019 - 12:00am TACLOBAN CITY , Philippines A 65-year-old woman drowned and was declared dead on arrival at the Limasawa Southern Leyte Rural Health Unit while 11 other passengers and three crewmembers were rescued when a motorboat capsized in the waters off Southern Leyte on Monday.

Download Rohingya crisis: UN agency puts death toll in boat capsize at 60 NNA - More than 50 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were missing after their boat capsized, with 20 confirmed dead, Bangladesh police said on Friday, as a new surge in the numbers fleeing a Myanmar military campaign took the total to more than half a million.

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Chinese authorities blamed bad weather and failures in judgment by crew members for the cruise ship capsize in the Yangtze River that killed 442 people on June 1.