SAVANNAH, Ga. — A survivor of Sapelo Island dock gangway collapse reunited with one of her rescuers. Bertha McKnight, 80, and college student Catherine Sneed were both on the dock when the gangway suddenly gave out. The collapse sent 20 people into the water, including McKnight. Seven people died.

As many as 40 people may have been on a gangway leading to a boat dock before it collapsed Saturday afternoon, resulting in seven deaths, a state official said Sunday.

At least seven people are dead after a portion of a ferry dock collapsed at about 3:50 p.m. Saturday on Sapelo Island, authorities say. Twenty people fell into the water when a gangway to the dock collapsed, said Tyler Jones, a spokesman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, which operates the dock.

At least seven people died after the gangway collapsed at Georgia’s Sapelo Island on Saturday, state authorities said.

What should have been a joyous celebration of Gullah-Geechee culture and history instead turned into tragedy and devastation,” President Joe Biden said

Georgia authorities say they are investigating the catastrophic failure of a dock gangway that collapsed, killing seven on Sapelo Island off the state's Atlantic seacoast

A ferry connecting an island off the coast of Georgia resumed operations Monday while the investigation to see what might have caused a deadly dock collapse that killed seven people continues.

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.