After a multiyear, multimillion-dollar renovation, the country’s only heavy icebreaker is undergoing weeks of trials to make sure everything works OK. The trials in the Arctic also are intended to provide an opportunity for inexperienced crew members on the U.S. …
A maze of maritime regulations and fragmented oversight of the cruise industry make it tough for consumers to assess the health and safety record of ships they’re about to board for a vacation. No one entity or country oversees or …
With more than 50 vessels idled on the water for a fourth day Wednesday, authorities said they still do not know when they will be able to reopen a 16-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due …
The Coast Guard on Tuesday spotted a large dock that has washed ashore in a remote section of Olympic National Park on the northwest Washington coast. Scientists are concerned it could be debris from the tsunami that struck Japan last …
The Coast Guard will host a southeast Alaska petroleum spill exercise Wednesday at the Ted Ferry Civic Center in Ketchikan. The exercise will be a tabletop oil spill response based on a scenario of a vessel collision near Sitka. The …
A new round of inspections of towboats and tugs is starting in July as part of a nationwide push by the Coast Guard to improve the safety of the nation’s rivers and harbors. Since a 2008 collision and oil spill …
The defense took aim at a Coast Guard investigator’s contention that the co-pilot of a helicopter that crashed, killing three, was “not actively navigating.” An attorney for Lt. Lance Leone, John Smith, referred to the transcript of the cockpit voice …
BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that washes up on the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company’s well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, …
The United States heaped the lion’s share of blame for the country’s biggest ever offshore oil spill on BP Wednesday as the government issued its final assessment of last year’s Gulf disaster. In a report that may be pivotal in …
A Coast Guard vessel’s dangerous speed likely caused a collision that killed an 8-year-old boy and seriously injured four other people aboard a pleasure boat during a holiday parade, the National Transportation Safety Board found Tuesday. The board also faulted …