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Four people survived after a rescue helicopter crashed into the ocean off Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “The crew were saving the lives of

Happy New Year from the gCaptain crew! Image: Shutterstock

If you see a boat on fire, do you: Stand by and film it with your phone? Put that s@#% out? Filmed at Lake Lyndon in New

2012 was a crazy year with a lot of incident photos. Here are gCaptain’s picks for Top 10 Maritime Incident Photos of 2012: Click on the titles for more

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From All Of Us @ gCaptain! Update December 2014: Not sure how you all are getting here, but if you like big ships you

I sat down with Trevor Blakeley, Chief Executive at the Royal Institute of Naval Architects this fall to discuss the distinguished institution he represents,

By William Hughes (Will) Watson, President of AdvanFort U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret.) Terence E. “Terry” McKnight was the pioneering U.S. Commander

In February 2012, gCaptain reported that in March 2011 Bulgarian shipmaster Captain Svetlozar Lyubomirov Sobadzhiev was arrested in Cristobal, Panama after 168

-By Justin Chisholm Italy’s most high profile ocean racer, Giovanni Soldini, and a handpicked eight-man international crew are standing by in New York,

Southern California brings images of convertibles twisting along coastal highways, miles of superb beaches and near perfect weather. The description is

Requesting permission to board, Captain. Lolo, a motorcycle journalist for Moto Journal, shows you how not to ride your Yamaha bike around

At the Marine Money Conference in New York City two weeks ago, Dr. David Zervos, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist at Jefferies & Company gave

As part of Cyber Monday we are offering 50% OFF 30 and 60 day job postings on gCaptain.com’s Maritime and Offshore Industry Job Board. Come experience

Have you started your holiday shopping? While most of the United States is scouting the internet for holiday shopping deals many in New York City are still

This unbelievable video shows the VESTAS Sailrocket 2 smashing the sailboat speed record with an ‘outright speed’ record of 59.38 knots.  

Either that or these guys are just very well-dressed, and very tiny shipyard workers.

Today marks the 37th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes freighter that sank in a strong gale on eastern Lake Superior

With collapsed buildings, fires, flooded subways, a beached ship, and scorched transformers throughout New York City, some residents are thinking there is no

We’ve all seen those somewhat complicated NOAA weather forecasts with the 500 millibar lines and the frontal boundaries and unless you’re a

By Mario Vittone As I write this, the Coast Guard is still searching for two sailors missing from the the tall ship Bounty; the ship itself lies on the