Investigations are underway to determine what caused the 457-foot Queen of Oak Bay ferry to run aground onto Sewell's Marina. The accident destroyed about 20 boats and stranded hundreds of passengers. No injuries were reported.
Prompted by the recent London bombings, the Coast Guard has instructed ferries regulated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act to begin screening vehicles and bags for bombs and checking identification of passengers. Passengers will also see in increased police presence on boats and docks.
Searrk Marine, formerly known as Monark of Arkansas has sued Donald Priest Holleb's step-grandfather and boat owner, Justin Nicholas for negligence in the August 2, 2001 boating accident that left Holleb with severe injuries.
In an unusual move, Victor Hinkson, a survivor of the 2003 Andrew J. Barberi ferry crash, is seeking a life salvage award for helping injured fellow passengers.
Amid protests from environmental groups, the Maritime Administration is seeking an exemption from federal law to send the James River Reserve Fleet ships to foreign countries for scrapping.
Federal prosecutors say the disappearance of a U.S. cruise ship passenger from a Mediterranean honeymoon cruise is beginning to look more suspicious.
The Sierra Club, Friends of Haleakala National Park, Maui Tomorrow Foundation Inc. and the Kahului Harbor Coalition have filed a lawsuit against Hawaii Superferry, the federal Maritime Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Eight hundred angry cruise-ship passengers invaded the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle after a technical malfunction stranded the Norwegian Dream cruise-ship.
In a historic moment, Royal Caribbean's new 'Freedom of the Seas' cruise ship was moved from dry land to wet dock for its final month of construction.
Divers desperately searched the Ohio River on Thursday for two missing bodies after a barge smashed into a 36-foot, incapacitated houseboat.
Keith David Price of Landenburg, Pa has been charged with six violations of Maryland maritime law after his cabin cruiser struck a fishing boat anchored at the mouth of the Choptank River.
Michael McKay, national president of the American Maritime Officers Union, his brother Robert McKay, the union's secretary, and union employees James Lynch and Phillip Ciccarelli were charged with embezzlement, election rigging and fraud.
Authorities continue to investigate the mysterious illness that has sickened close to 100 passengers over the past month on Colorado River tour boats.
In a victory for golfer Tiger Woods, a Miami federal court has ruled that the lawsuit he filed against Christensen Shipyards Ltd. will continue to a U.S. District Court and the order prohibiting Christensen from using Wood's name and pictures of his boat would remain in effect.
The investigation surrounding the collision between the Groton-based USS Philadelphia and a Turkish freighter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month continues.
An Eau Claire, Wisconsin woman has agreed to settle out of court with boat manufacturer Alumacraft in the 2002 drowning accident that took the life of her husband, John Fletty.
Ahmet Artuner of Ferndale, Washington was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for deliberately sinking his 73-foot fishing boat.
Twenty-one tourists were killed on Sunday when a 40-foot cruiser known as the Ethan Allen capsized on Lake George, 50 miles north of Albany.
The state of New York has suspended the operating certificate for Shoreline Cruises, the owner of the Ethan Allan, the 38-foot boat that sank on Sunday afternoon killing 21 people.
Two women who survived the Ethan Allen tour boat accident last week have filed lawsuits against Shoreline Cruises in a U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Glenn Colann, a 56-year-old Columbus man convicted of ramming a boat and leaving the scene of the accident, is now serving his 10-year sentence in a halfway house.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. has lost an appeal for protection from a lawsuit involving an assault by one of their crewmembers.
U.S. Marshals have confiscated A.C. Cruise Line's 540-passenger M/V Cape Ann following an extensive court battle between the cruise line company and a Texas finance company.
A federal judge has sentenced Richard J. Smith to 18 months in prison and Patrick Ryan to one year in prison for the October 2003 Staten Island ferry crash that killed 11 passengers.
A newly formed group known as the International Cruise Victims say their organization is rapidly gaining popularity. The group's mission is to improve cruise ship safety.
Dubai Ports World, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, will be taking operational control of six U.S. ports.
The controversial deal that would have allowed a United Arab Emirates company to take over operations of six U.S. ports has finally come to a conclusion.
Officials from Carnival Corp. confirmed that one person died and eleven were injured in a fire aboard a Princess cruise ship.
On Friday, U. S. Marshals confiscated the Texas Star casino boat due to their alleged failure to pay an electrical company for services.
SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. - The family of a man who died following a cruise is preparing to sue Carnival Cruise Lines.
Carnival Cruise Lines has agreed to pay $6.25 million to thousands of past and current employees for unpaid overtime compensation.
The courts will now hear the accusations brought by the family of George Smith, who disappeared a year ago from the Royal Caribbean Cruise ship “Brilliance of the Seas" during his honeymoon in the Mediterranean.
The disappearance of Elizabeth Kay Galeana, the 22-year-old daughter of a wealthy Naples automotive mogul, is being investigated by the FBI and other international law enforcement agencies.
Two recent drownings on Lake Travis in Travis County, Texas, and an accident on a New York lake that killed 20 people last year have prompted Texas state and local officials to seek better regulation of commercially operated vessels.
Mark de Tournillon Sr. agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the estates of the late Lawrence and Judith Lewis for $2.75 million, 3 months after pleading guilty to 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter by intoxication.
One year after a tour boat capsized on Lake George in New York, killing 20 people, two boat companies are facing off in U.S. District Court.
The captain and cruise line owner of a touring vessel that capsized in Lake George in Upstate New York have been indicted on criminal misdemeanor charges.
Two guilty pleas have been entered in connection with the October 2005 boat accident that killed 20 tourists on New York’s Lake George.
Spanish officials say that an enormous treasure recently found by a Florida-based company in a sunken colonial-era ship may be the property of Spain.
The U.S. Maritime Administration is swimming in choppy waters with California officials over the disposal of 53 obsolete military ships that are releasing toxic paint, asbestos, and other contaminated materials into Suisun Bay.
A navigation bill that was recently amended as a result of the capsizing of a tour boat on Lake George in New York State has been signed into law.
The move comes after San Diego grocer Scott Boney was critically injured after an altercation with another passenger on a Carnival cruiseliner in September.
The Homeland Security Committee earlier this month approved language in the Coast Guard Authorization Act requiring the government to be notified of cruise ship incidents involving passenger injury or death.
A new study released this month blames maritime industry pollution for more than 60,000 lung cancer- and cardiopulmonary-related deaths around the world each year, with almost 9,000 of them occurring in North America alone.
A man traveling aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line passenger vessel is being treated after falling from the eighth story onto a lower deck.
Dozens of passengers are filing claims for physical and psychological damages stemming from a 2006 incident in which a Princess cruiseliner dangerously listed to the starboard.
The National Transportation Safety Board says bad steering and improper training was the cause of a 2006 incident aboard a Princess Cruises vessel in which the ship tilted dangerously on its side, injuring hundreds of passengers.
A proposed change in the Passenger Vessel Services Act intended to support the embattled Hawaiian cruise ship market has drawn criticism from some quarters within the travel industry.
A Brazilian passenger ferryboat carrying over 100 passengers sank into the Amazon River early Thursday morning after colliding with a freight barge loaded with fuel tanks.
Tina Conder, an Indiana resident who worked on the riverboat casino Glory Of Rome, is suing her former employer under maritime law for damages suffered as a result of a flea infestation aboard the vessel.
Attorneys for Exxon Mobil Corp. argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that the $2.5 billion in punitive damages assessed against the company after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill should be reduced or barred.
The captain of a fishing vessel that sank early Sunday morning in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska is today numbered among the dead, along with three of the boat’s crew members.
Nakami Chi Group Ministries International co-owner Gregg Wolfe has admitted the business took millions in investment funds from church groups and used new investors’ money to make interest payments and cover their tracks.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 2830, or the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act, last Friday by a bipartisan vote of 395-7, despite a vow by President Bush to veto the bill.
Nearly a year after asserting that sunken treasure recovered by Tampa, Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. might be Spanish property, Spanish archaeologists announced that they have identified the source of the treasure.
A California Appellate Court has ruled that Connolly-Pacific Co. is not liable for a seaman who contracted West Nile Virus, and is therefore not required to provide him with food, lodging, or medical care.
In a 5-3 decision hailed as a victory for corporations seeking to limit lawsuit damages, the U.S. Supreme Court has severely reduced the $2.5 billion punitive award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill case.