The ship's captain is the master of all - but sometimes they got it wrong. Here are the fascinating tales of two of history's most incompetent captains - and one who was falsely accused of being so.

In 1901, the passenger ship SS City of Rio de Janeiro struck hidden rocks while approaching San Francisco Bay and sank in less than ten minutes. More than 120 people lost their lives, many trapped ...

On Feb. 5, 1856, the steamboat Belle exploded while heading upriver from Sacramento to modern-day Red Bluff, Read the Plaque ...

The lives of those who were lost in one of the UK's worst peacetime sea disasters has been remembered at a memorial service ...

These historic winter storms brought extreme snow, ice, and freezing cold temperatures, resulting in record death tolls and ...

Philippine officials have grounded the entire fleet of passenger ships belonging to a company that owned a ferry that sank in ...

In August 2020, Vikash Tatayah at the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation made a phone call he never expected to make. He had “an unusual request,” he recounts telling friends in the U.K. who owned a ...

At least 18 people have died after a ferry accident in the southern Philippines, with 316 rescued as search efforts continued. The 621-gt ropax Trisha Kerstin 3 (built 1995) was sailing to Jolo in ...

Once savaged by critics, Matt LeBlanc's Lost in Space reboot is suddenly surging on streaming nearly three decades later.

A ferry with more than 340 people onboard sank early today off the southern Philippines, killing at least 18 and leaving 10 ...

At least 13 bodies have been recovered, and more than 100 people remain missing after an inter-island ferry carrying over 350 ...

Storms are the engines that create swell. When a powerful low-pressure system starts spinning off the coastline of any part ...