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 ...

Hundreds dead, only 47 survivors, and an uncertain number of victims — How the sinking at Falkonera led to changes in ...

Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering the ocean floor. Many of these ships hide ...

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS ...

If you haven’t heard of the Sultana, it’s not because Doug Stout, and Dan Fleming, and Chris Evans, and a number of us local historians haven’t tried to let you know about it. On April 27, 1865, after ...

The huge steamboat steamed upstream against the powerful current of the Mississippi River. It was mid-April and the spring rains had fueled a torrent of muddy, brown water which overflowed the banks ...

On July 6th, 1988, disaster struck! Once the pride of the North Seaturned into one of the deadliest man-made infernos in history. In just minutes, a routine maintenance error triggered a chain ...

Midstream, April 27, 1865 -- Getting there -- War -- The raids -- Somewhere, the little brother -- Captured -- Cahaba -- Andersonville -- Going off alone -- Release -- Sold up the river -- The ...

Winnie De Silva has relived the moment two Sea World choppers collided above the Gold Coast Broadwater in January 2023, ...