This week in Alaska history, we take a look at the time a typhoon hit Alaska, a maritime tragedy, and the quest to save a ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

The Sri Lankan navy said on Tuesday an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded supertanker carrying roughly 2 million barrels of oil that has been engulfed in intermittent fires since an ...

Between off-field controversies and a subpar 2-3 product, the eight-time Super Bowl winner is well on his way to becoming ...

In 1983, a diving crew aboard the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea prepared to surface after a routine job. But when a ...

The cargo ship El Faro sank on Oct. 1, 2015, leaving four Maine residents and 29 others dead. It has been described as one of the worst maritime disasters in recent history. 21,232 people played the ...

PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) – Ten years ago, the cargo ship El Faro sank off of the Bahamas in a massive Category 4 hurricane, killing all 33 people on board, including four from Maine. It was one of the ...

Germany’s HS Schiffahrts Group and ship financier Mare Trust have launched a project to order up to 10 multipurpose vessels. The 12,500-dwt vessels, costing $30m each, will be built at Jiangsu Soho ...

Ten years ago this week, one of the worst maritime disasters in American history took place in the Bahamas. Thirty-three crew members of the container ship SS El Faro sailed directly into Hurricane ...

Visitors to James Point Park in North Jacksonville can see the SS El Faro memorial along the St. Johns River. El Faro, Spanish for “the lighthouse,” takes form in a 10-foot-tall bronze lighthouse ...

Maeve McGoran, the reporter and host of the podcast “Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company and Culture Sank the SS El Faro” joined WLRN’s Danny Rivero on "The Florida Roundup" to discuss the series. Ten ...