Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...

They say rain is good luck on your wedding day... but what do they say about having a boat sink directly next to your venue? Seems like a bad omen... There's only so much that's in your control when ...

Well, that changed quickly as the October Nor’easter barreled up the coast, chasing our seven-day vacation with Princess ...

Ships use a system called Navtex to get weather forecasts at sea. Navtex forms part of the GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress & Safety System), and is the official way for ships to receive their weather ...

Flamborough Head is also famous for a much earlier naval confrontation, on September 23, 1779. It was fought between the USS ...

Seiichi Katsurada, president of the operator of a tour boat that sank off the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido in 2022, pleaded not guilty to professional negligence resulting in death in the ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald still sits at the bottom of Lake Superior, submerged in 535 feet of water, about 17 miles ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier that sank during a storm on the night of Nov. 10, 1975, in Lake Superior. Twenty-nine crew ...

What really goes on in the Bermuda Triangle? Is it as mysterious and dangerous as we’re meant to believe? And could ocean farts be behind it all?

On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ founding, the Dec. 21, 1947 issues of the Sunday Oregonian and the Oregon ...

Survivors of one of Hong Kong's deadliest maritime disasters and victims' families who spent 13 years in a legal and bureaucratic maze seeking answers are hoping a coroner's rulin ...