Buoy

30 Dec 2012

Passengers described a scene of chaos on board a high-speed ferry yesterday after it smashed into a marker buoy 15 minutes after setting off from Macau for Hong Kong. The crash left 26 people aged...

4:55AM

Call for more warnings around rock

30 May 2011

More hazard warnings are needed around Adamasta Rock in the middle of a busy shipping channel in Hong Kong waters to alert passing vessels, an expert says.

11:12AM

Father and son flee boat blaze

1 Oct 2002

A 42-year-old man and his son, 22, had to abandon their boat and jump into sea when the vessel, carrying a cargo of motorcycles, caught fire off Sai Kung early yesterday.

5:12PM

Revellers hurt as speedboat rams buoy

28 Oct 1999

Eight people were injured when their speedboat rammed a buoy off Lamma Island early yesterday.

The collision took place at about 2am, shortly after the nine-metre boat left Sok Kwu...

7:09PM

Children injured as speedboat ploughs into buoy off Tai Tam

22 Aug 1999

FIVE children and a helmsman, 34, were taken to Eastern Hospital after a speedboat rammed into a buoy off Tai Tam. The helmsman and a girl, 14, were in stable condition last night.

1:28PM

Crew 'panicky, uninformed' after ferry hit buoy

4 Aug 1999

The crew of a ferry was accused yesterday of panicking and being uninformed during an accident on Monday.

12:02PM

Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

5 comments

3:37AM

Marine police launch inquiry after vessel is sunk by buoy

MARINE police were yesterday investigating the sinking of a $2.5 million high-speed police launch off the north of Lantau.

9:25AM

Traffic buoys to be set up in harbour

TRAFFIC separation buoys are to be introduced into the harbour and the western fairway following a successful trial of a test buoy late last year.

10:39AM

Ferry suicide

AN elderly man was missing presumed drowned after he jumped from a Central to Cheung Chau ferry at about 7.30 pm. Crew on the Man Kwok threw life buoys into the sea, but a helicopter search failed...

6:48PM

Sinking feeling over house dream

AN Australian spent yesterday afternoon salvaging what he could from his newly-bought boat, which was found almost entirely submerged off Middle Island the day before.

7:38AM

Move to curb 'cowboy coxswains'

MARINE Department officials are to consider prosecuting coxswains who do not follow the fairway rules in Victoria Harbour, pending a three-month trial of the first marking buoy laid yesterday.

8:13AM

Luxury yacht being damaged

THE captain of the luxury yacht owned by American multi-billionaire John Kluge has complained to the Marine Department that the special cargo buoy the vessel has been allowed to use is chipping...

9:59PM