Year in Review: The Maritime Stories That Defined 2025
When historians chronicle 2025, they won’t remember it as the year shipping got more efficient or cleaner. They’ll remember it as the year the world’s oceans became a battlefield for...
Updated: December 31, 2012 (Originally published December 28, 2012)
2012 was a crazy year with a lot of incident photos. Here are gCaptain’s picks for Top 10 Maritime Incident Photos of 2012:
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4. MSC Flaminia

5. Hong Kong Ferry Disaster – Lamma IV

6. Staten Island Street Grounding

7. Hurricane Sandy Aerial Photographs



10. Corvus J and the Baltic Ace Sinking

Honorable Mentions:
11. Arctic-bound drillship, Noble Discoverer, nearly runs aground in Alaska.

12. USS Porter Collides with Tanker

What would you add to the list?
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