Accidents

A salvage team has successfuly boarded the Felicity Ace car carrier and attached a tow line to stop it from drifting more than a week after the ship was

The Felicity Ace carrying around 4,000 vehicles continues to burn more than a week after catching fire in the Atlantic Ocean south of the Azores Islands. White

By Vel Moonien in Mauritius – Three Taiwanese trawlers have run aground on reefs off Mauritius’ Bain-des-Dames and Pointe-aux-Sables, at the

The Euroferry Olympia will be towed to port in Platygiali, Greece where a search will continue for ten people still missing after the roll-on/roll-off

The fire on the Felicity Ace ship off the coast of Portugal’s Azores Islands is expected to generate at least $155 million in losses for Volkswagen, Porsche,

By Vel Moonien in Mauritius The Mauritian-flagged tanker that ran aground earlier this month on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is in the process of

Two large salvage tugs are expected to arrive at the Felicity Ace car carrier which remains adrift after a fire in the Atlantic Ocean. An update from the

By Lefteris Papadimas CORFU, Greece, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Firefighters battling for a third day a blaze on a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy

LISBON, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out on Wednesday on a vessel carrying thousands of luxury

By Lefteris Papadimas and Angelo Amante CORFU, Greece, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Twelve people are still missing after a blaze swept through a ferry

A salvage team from SMIT is en route to the retreive the abandoned M/V Felicity Ace, which continues to burn near the Azores. BERLIN/LISBON, Feb 18

(Note: This article was originally written and submitted to gCaptain prior to the Felicity Ace fire, the cause of which is not yet known. It has been updated

By Angeliki Koutantou and Giselda Vagnoni ATHENS/ROME, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Eight passengers were missing after a blaze engulfed a ferry sailing

Some dramatic video is going viral today showing a large wave crashing through the windows of a passenger ferry in Germany. The incident took place on Thursday

A car carrier is abandoned and on fire in the North Atlantic near the Azores. All 22 crew members of the M/V Felicity Ace abandoned ship safely and were

Researchers have measured what they believe to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at 17.6 meters – the equivalent of a four-story building. The

STOCKHOLM, Feb 15 (Reuters) – A Swedish appeal court ordered on Tuesday that a district court try again a case against two film makers accused of

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing shrimp boat captain who fell overboard near Port Aransas, Texas, on Sunday. Coast Guard crews searched

A woman has died after falling some 60-feet from the mast of a tall ship in Galveston, Texas. Police confirm the 58-year-old woman, who was a volunteer on the

ENAGAO, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least three people died in Nigeria when the oil storage and production vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit, exploded last week