The SS Eastland rolled onto its side while tied to a Chicago dock. Poor design, overcrowding, and ignored warnings led to one of the worst civilian maritime disasters in American history ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

As compensation battles over the X-Press Pearl disaster stall, the MSC Elsa 3 accident off Kerala has inflicted new damage on ...

The refusal of payment of USD 1 billion as compensation for the damage caused by the MV X-Press Pearl disaster has sparked ...

A little blue penguin/kororā being bathed by the Wildbase Oiled Wildlife Response team after the 2011 Rena oil spill. New ...

In 1983, a diving crew aboard the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea prepared to surface after a routine job. But when a ...

Estonia's government is to propose to Finland and Sweden renewing the investigation into the 1994 sinking of the ferry Estonia in which 852 lives were lost, Europe's worst peacetime maritime disaster ...

Estonia, Sweden and Finland will look into fresh evidence on the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which went down 26 years ago on Monday with the loss of 852 lives in Europe's worst peacetime maritime ...

The cargo ship El Faro sank on Oct. 1, 2015, leaving four Maine residents and 29 others dead. It has been described as one of the worst maritime disasters in recent history. 21,232 people played the ...

New research highlights the need to integrate mental health support into all phases of oil spill response training for ...

Ten years ago this week, one of the worst maritime disasters in American history took place in the Bahamas. Thirty-three crew members of the container ship SS El Faro sailed directly into Hurricane ...