Accidents

The insurer of a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier which ran aground last week in Mauritius following an apparent brawl on board says that the incident was

High waves have forced salvage crews to delay the operation to lift the sunken Sewol ferry in South Korea until later this month. The lifting of vessel kicked

A pilot’s inability to respond appropriately to hydrodynamic forces and a lack of communication was found to be the probable cause between a bulk carrier

The U.S. Coast Guard has reported that lightering operations on the grounded MV Roger Blough began Friday a full week after the American freighter ran

Lightering operations have been planned for the Great Lakes freighter hard aground on a reef in Lake Superior, but it’s likely to be several

A U.S.-flagged freighter that spent Memorial Day weekend hard aground in Lake Superior is still stuck Tuesday as salvage crews continue on plans to refloat the

The removal of fuel and all hazardous materials from the stranded bulk carrier Los Llanitos concluded earlier this month as the salvage now moves to

In this video, SMIT Salvage tells the story of the amazing race to save the Modern Express, a 164-meter-long Roll-on/Roll-off vessel which earlier this

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has released its report into the January 2015 sinking of the MV Cemfjord, finding that the incident was the result

The Hoegh Osaka had no chance of surviving the Bramble Bank turn shortly after the vessel departed from the port of Southampton on January 3, 2015 with

The amazing race to save the Modern Express began on January 26th, 2016 when British authorities picked up a distress call from the roll-on/roll-off cargo

South African Salvage Master Nick Sloane has joined Resolve Marine Group as Senior Salvage Master.  Sloane has been in the business for decades but is

Update: The salvage team has abandoned the Modern Express for the night after an attempt to establish a tow line was unsuccessful, Maritime Prefect

For Latest Updates: Modern Express Adrift in Bay of Biscay Thursday: The Panamanian-flagged car carrier Modern Express continues to drift eastward in the Bay

The Mexican government is hoping to dismantle the bulk carrier Los Llanitos in the same spot at which it ran aground in October during Hurricane Patricia. The

On December 5, 2012, the car carrier Baltic Ace sank in the North Sea with more than 1,400 cars on board after a colliding with a containership near the

A marine salvage legend well known for his role in raising the Costa Concordia has past away following a freak snowboarding accident in Utah. gCaptain has

A section of the Mississippi River is restricted to one-way vessel traffic near Memphis as the Coast Guard and response crews work to salvage a towboat

A master’s reliance on scanty VHF information and another’s failure to keep a proper lookout contributed to a collision between a containership and

Spain’s sea search and rescue organization, Salvamento Marítimo, says the debunkering of the Russian trawler Oleg Naydenov that sunk in April has been