From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants.
The New York Police Department has unveiled two high-tech patrol boats that can sniff out radiological or nuclear threats from miles away.
Beijing may have the 2008 Summer Olympics, but New York has the 18th annual dragon boat festival.
The four dozen men in loincloths stopped repeatedly to toss the new boat into the air as they carried it through their village to shore.
Forty boats sped off silently Monday in what is billed as the world's largest race for solar powered watercraft. High winds capsized several boats during a time trial qualifying round Sunday, and technical problems with the launching crane pushed back Monday's start. But all 40 qualifiers finally departed under fair skies, spokeswoman Christel Pieper of the Frisian Solar Challenge said.
Jamaica Bay is located within the only national park in New York City, a place where herring gulls pirouette overhead, Canada geese sail in naval formation in quiet coves and harbor seals frolic on the shoreline.
A sixth person died of injuries suffered when a fishing trawler collided with an overcrowded boat in Sydney Harbor, authorities said Friday.
A U.S. Navy ship encountered a small Iranian high-speed boat in the central Persian Gulf and warned it away by firing a flare, the Pentagon said Friday.
Russia has released six more Japanese fishermen who had been detained earlier this month after their boats were seized in disputed waters, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Russia released a detained Japanese fishing boat captain Thursday because of a chronic medical problem, a week after his boat and three others were seized in waters claimed by both countries, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
Japan said Thursday that Russia seized four Japanese fishing boats in disputed waters between the two countries, calling the detention unacceptable and demanding an explanation from Moscow.
Don Yost, harbormaster in Coos Bay for the past 18 years, was handed a list of seven salmon fishermen and instructed to seize their boats because they had fallen months behind in paying their mooring fees.
Can concrete float? Twenty-three student teams from around the country are competing in a concrete canoe competition to find out.
It's whatever floats your boat — even if it's a concrete canoe. Engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno shoved 217 pounds of it into the lake at Sparks Marina Park, then took turns paddling it across the water. Floating concrete?
Pirates of the Caribbean, one of Disney's most popular rides, will get a makeover.