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BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- A deepwater oil exploration vessel belonging to China Oilfield Services Ltd. (2883.HK) sank Saturday during construction at a dock in

There is lots of guessing out there in the wake of the COSTA CONCORDIA disaster. Here are my thoughts on the matter. The initial accident: First, there is lots

Upon departure from the port of a Giglio, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy, the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef, tearing a 50 meter-long

UPDATE: The captain of the cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA has been arrested by Italian police as an investigation into Friday night’s grounding is

By Clay Maitland, On Christmas day, the bulk carrier VINALINES QUEEN, carrying a cargo of nickel ore from Morowali, Indonesia to China, went missing.  The

Developing story… Five crewmembers from the cargo ship M/V Swanland are missing after the vessel sank in heavy seas in the Irish Sea early Sunday

We’ve already seen some close calls today, but hey, they were still close calls. This weeks actual incident photo comes to us via the USCG and shows a

This is classic! Details of what actually went down in this incident are bit fuzzy being that most every report is in Chinese, but from what we gather, a

  The world’s most storied deepwater oil rig, the Transocean Marianas, has developed a critical list after an anchor punctured her poontoon and is

EDITOR’S NOTE: gCaptain was saddened by the news yesterday that a vessel carrying a reported 300 migrants from Northern Africa to Italy capsized and sank

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) reports that the Singapore-registered asphalt tanker, “AB9” sank at approximately 1510hrs on 27

See gCaptain’s full list of incident photos HERE Radio Canada tells

Image Courtesy: mhsd.org To coincide with the 23rd anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in Lake Superior, Southport Video Productions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj-FIXlTPIo Youtube user annanoli tells us: Italian liner Principessa Jolanda sinks during launch because of defective

Death came early this year. The typhoon season has only just started and already, brightly coloured flop-flop rubber sandals are arriving on the coastlines of

In a feature appropriately titled “Worst Case Scenario” Popular Mechanics brings us “The Coast Guard’s Most Extreme Rescue –

The fishing vessel Alaska Ranger, which sank last month west of Dutch Harbor had aboard both a captain and a fishing master. Tragically neither survived the

MS Wilhelm Gustloff, 9,000 lives lost in 1945 With a death toll six times greater than the Titanic, new light has been shed on MS Wilhelm Gustloff, as a

Fred Fry’s Maritime Monday points us to this photo of the M/V New Flame by ship spotter Neill Rush. GoGibralta tells us: The Wreck of the M/V New Flame

g Captain's favorite video - what happens if you call the German Coast Guard when your ship starts sinking? What are you thinking about?? We're thinking this