He drowned in a boating accident.

他在一次划船事故中淹死了。

He drowned in a boating accident last year.

他去年因船只事故溺水身亡。

Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.

大多数人会有一个报纸剪贴簿——尤其当他们有家人或者朋友死于奇怪的船只失事事件的时候。