A very prominent character in oceanographic history and science was Matthew Fontaine Maury. Being born an American in ...

A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

The Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse stands tall above the Volusia County coastline, a beacon for ships in the Atlantic Ocean ...

Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...

TRAVEL: by Eric Mackenzie Lamb About 6 years ago, I went to Hanley Bay on the south coast of Nevis, and took a stroll along ...

Four men were rescued after their boat sank north of the Dominican Republic and taken to Jacksonville, the Coast guard said ...

Several fishermen helped Coast Guard crewmembers rescue four Americans whose ship had sunk after striking several rocks.

The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from Antarctica towards the island of South Georgia.

The Panama Canal has long been one of the most important routes for global shipping. It’s a narrow passageway that connects ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

US Coast Guard aircrew, the crew of the Crowley container ship El Coquí and fishermen from the fishing vessel Bonanza rescued ...