Grounding Incidents

Friday Update: Crew removed as salvors get to work. *Update: The above image was sent to us last night by a confidential source Original story: While at a

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy minesweeper, the USS Guardian, ran aground in the Sulu Sea off the Philippines on Thursday, and was stuck on a

ANCHORAGE, AK – Unified Command today continued with assessment of the Kulluk, deployment of recovery equipment and staging oil spill response equipment.

Latest Update (Jan. 2): Overflight Video, Environmental Groups Respond as Damage Assessment Begins on the Stranded Kulluk By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Update: The owners of the Stena Primorsk have contracted commercial environmental response experts to monitor for any pollution and assist in the salvage of

In these photos the M/V Beaumont, a British-flagged cargo ship, is seen grounded along a rocky cliff at the beach of Xago near Aviles in northern Spain,

Scary moments again off the coast of the Netherlands- this time on Sunday night, when the 170-meter M/V Ocean Victory cargo ship lost propulsion and was

Hurricane Sandy isn’t the only storm causing problems for mariners this week. In India, a powerful cyclone that has been brewing in the northern Indian

The Captain of the Maltese-flagged M/V Wilson Avonmouth is lucky to have avoided going aground near Helsingor, Denmark after passing out at the helm, and

I covered the sinking of the COSTA CONCORDIA back in January and posted some of my initial comments in ‘COSTA CONCORDIA – Fred Fry’s Comments

A violent storm ripped through Spain over the weekend bringing with it flash floods, high winds, tornadoes, and two side-by-side ship groundings along the

In what initially appears to have been caused by a navigational error, an Aframax tanker owned by Vancouver-based Teekay Tankers, has run aground off the coast

Hamburg-based owner/managers Leonhardt & Blumberg report that they have appointed local salvage company Antillana De Salvamento for the salvaging of