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Propane Explosion Ends Circumnavigation

By Administrator · On March 9, 2017

It was a quiet Monday evening, about one hour after sunset, when a fireball erupted from the cabin of a sailboat moored in Banks Channel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. The blast heavily damaged the boat and badly injured its sole occupant, Timothy Wilkinson. The explosion, caused by a propane leak, was “devastating, it was total devastation,” Wilkinson said. Read More

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