In an effort to curb maritime disaster, the Indian government has proposed a mandatory rule for the shipping companies. The Directorate General of Shipping, against the backdrop of recent shipping ...

Cruise ships promise luxury, leisure, and escape—but sometimes, those dreams go disastrously off course. Behind the glossy brochures and endless buffets are stories of chaos, confusion, and survival ...

— -- The fast-growing cruise industry is facing one of its biggest tests in years after this week's Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy. Many Wall Street analysts, travel agents and ...

After 100 years, a grad student accidentally found new images of the tragedy. — -- One hundred years after a boat capsized in the Chicago river, killing 844 people, archival footage of the ...

Four years after a stricken cargo ship caused the largest plastic spill ever recorded, volunteers on Sri Lanka's beaches are still sifting kilograms of tiny, toxic plastic pellets from the sand.