The American Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is scheduled to release its findings of an investigation into the Deepwater Horizon disaster that caused the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill this week. The CSB is one of several federal regulatoryRead More

Tragedy has struck on a cargo ship anchored in the Houston Ship Channel after a crew member on the vessel fell to his death in the early hours of the morning of June 28th, 2012. The crew member was standingRead More

The search for a group of missing Philippine fisherman was called off on Monday by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). The four fisherman have been missing for two weeks after their small fishing vessel was smashed into by an unidentifiedRead More

A family recreational boating weekend ended in tragedy as two of the family members were killed in a boating accident on Midmar Dam in the Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa on Sunday. The Van Heerden family were spending aRead More

It seems that all too often open gratings on ships seem to cause accidents and injuries to onboard personnel. An accident report that was recently released by the Danish Maritime Authority on an incident that occurred onboard the Danish chemicalRead More

The boat operator who was responsible for a fatal accident last Father’s Day is charged with vehicular homicide. Before the homicide charge he was charged with boating while intoxicated. The driver was arrested yesterday morning and is held on aRead More

A man from Cummings, GA has been charged with serious injury by vessel, homicide by vessel, reckless operation and boating under the influence, two of which are felonies. The charges follow a boating accident which occurred last April on LakeRead More

An asylum seeker boat that was carrying around 200 passengers capsized in Indonesian waters last Wednesday. An asylum seeker is someone who hopes to gain refugee status in another country and is fleeing persecution. Many boats that carry asylum seekersRead More

Following the spate of cruise liners that sank or were run aground earlier this year, three new safety policies have been implemented by cruise industry authorities, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and European Cruise Council. The new policies areRead More

James Seney, the former mayor of Sylvania, Ohio and a well known Republican politician, was killed in a recreational boat crash during a recent fishing trip to Canada. Seney was best known for his long stand as the mayor ofRead More