A ship with experience plucking migrants from unseaworthy smuggler's boats had arrived soon after the distress call went out. But then the fishing trawler's navigator made a manoeuvre that would seal ...

A New Jersey fire rescue boat was sunk in a “harrowing” freak accident involving a whale, sending the whole crew overboard ...

Amidst escalating war in the Middle East, Sri Lanka mounted a swift rescue operation on Wednesday after an Iranian naval vessel began sinking just outside the country’s territorial waters, prompting ...

Four men and two women are presumed to have drowned in the sinking of a fishing charter boat off Richmond, B.C., on Sunday, RCMP said, as a police underwater team prepared for a deep-water search for ...

Says cargo was experiencing severe flooding when Joint Maritime Information Coordination Centre received distress call ...

Every once in a while, a cruise ship takes an unexpected detour, bringing passengers along on what could be a lifesaving mission to render aid to those in peril at sea. Cruise ship captains abide by ...