In the midst of a celebration of the island’s small Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants, a gangway collapsed on the visitor ferry dock shortly ... only by boat or ferry ...

J.R. Grovner, 44, who runs an island tour company and had his boat at the dock, said the initial rescue efforts in the first 30 to 45 minutes after the gangway collapse involved mostly locals and ...

The gangway connected an outer dock where people board the ferry to ... “There was no collision” with a boat or anything else, Jones said. “The thing just collapsed. We don’t know why.” ...

Ford was walking "cautiously and carefully" on the gangway from the town dock in Port Washington to board a water taxi off a floating dock, said Brian Thomas McCarthy, Ford's Lake Success-based ...

The families of seven people who drowned after the gangway on a ferry dock collapsed on Sapelo Island are taking legal action almost eight months after their deaths.

Survivors and family members of the seven elderly people who died in the Sapelo Island gangway collapse are suing the ...

Attorneys representing the families of more than three dozen people killed or injured in what officials called a “catastrophic failure” filed the lawsuit.

Seven people died when the gangway collapsed Oct. 19, 2024, during the annual Sapelo Cultural Day celebration.

Unfortunately the tug operator did not untie before attempting to drive off, thereby pulling the float away from the gangway' ...