— -- 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 fast-growing cruise industry is facing one of its biggest tests in years after this week's Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy. Many Wall Street analysts, travel agents and ...

Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.

When you think of shipwrecks you may think of an older time when the ocean was the only way to cross the Atlantic and radar had yet to be invented. Indeed, scientists have estimated there are over 3 ...

Divers have discovered the final resting place of the SS Nantes -- closing the book on a UK maritime mystery that has endured for 140 years. Jam Press This discovery made major waves. Researchers have ...

Roughly 6,000 ships have wrecked on the Great Lakes, with about 1,500 occurring in Michigan waters. The deadliest early spring shipwreck on Lake Erie was the Anthony Wayne in 1850, resulting in up to ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...