The tragedy occurred late Saturday as visitors were leaving a Culture Day celebration on historic Sapelo Island.
Eyewitness video from the scene of a deadly gangway collapse at a dock in Georgia shows bystanders jumping into action after 20 people plunged into the water off Sapelo Island.
Bertha McKnight, 80, and college student Catherine Sneed were both on the dock when the gangway suddenly gave out.
A ferry connecting an island off the coast of Georgia resumed operations Monday while the investigation to see what might ...
Prior to the collapse, hundreds of people had gathered at a festival to celebrate the Gullah-Geechee community on the island.
Were it not for bystanders and law enforcement, more lives would have been lost in the Sapelo Island gangway collapse at the ...
Video shows the chaotic moments after a ferry dock gangway collapsed on Sapelo Island, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. Seven people died and several others were critically injured after ...
The seven victims of Saturday’s gangplank collapse on Sapelo Island ranged in age from 73 to 93, according to the McIntosh ...
A day of celebration ended in tragedy after officials say a “catastrophic failure” led to a dock gateway collapsing on a ...
White’s family was among hundreds visiting the isolated Georgia barrier island Saturday for a fall festival spotlighting the ...
A new video came to light Monday showing the chaos and calamity of a ferry gangway collapse on a historic Georgia island that left seven people dead.
Georgia authorities say they are investigating the catastrophic failure of a dock gangway that collapsed, killing seven on ...