Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

It was meant to be a routine sea trial — the final test before a new ship entered service. But within minutes, everything ...

— -- Why the cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized remains a mystery to world maritime and salvage experts two weeks after the tragedy that left 16 people dead and 16 still missing. The ...

The Titanic Exhibition opens Friday at the Shops at South Towne in Sandy, allowing Utahns to step back in time and experience ...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is on the hunt for marine safety investigators — and is prepared to pay. A salary of ...

Treasure hunters believe a fortune in gold remains lost in the wreckage. One hundred sixty years ago, the S.S. Brother Jonathan sank just south of the Oregon border in what remains one of the region’s ...

The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people in one of the state's deadliest maritime disasters, was indicted on Tuesday on federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney John Hillsman has spent a legal lifetime learning about ships, boats, and nearly anything that floats. And he's seen his share of disasters, including representing Bay Area ...

There are a few stories that I often tell when the subject of leadership in disasters is discussed. I figured I’d put them down on paper so I can stop repeating myself. It was pre OPA90, a single-skin ...

Carnival's journey from "fun ship" to "poop cruise" reveals challenges in the cruise industry and customer satisfaction.

View of the S.S. Pacific anchored near Fort Tongass in Alaska in 1868 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The loss of the steamship Pacific on November 4, 1875, left the community of Victoria, British ...