A man who fell overboard from his speedboat knocked the throttle as he went, leaving the speedboat to spin out of control. The volunteer crew of Teignmouth lifeboat raced to the scene and managed to stop the out of control boat.

Shoko Maru oil tanker exploded off Japan’s southwest coast near Himeji port, leaving one of the eight people aboard missing and the other seven injured.

CNN’s Kyra Phillips takes a close look at what went wrong on the Exxon Valdez with the ship’s captain, Joseph Hazelwood.

Royal Caribbean International’s Quantum of the Seas is 60% completed. All the major building blocks have been assembled into a single vessel. Now the 1,700 shipyard workers at Meyer Werft are focusing their attention on the detail work of outfitting the ship as she gets closer to her launch in November.

PrimeShip-HULLCare is a specially designed information service created to organize and categorize the staggering volume of information received from all over the world, and to provide owners and mangers with hull maintenance information for individual ships.The wealth of information available through PrimeShip-HULLCare helps make ship maintenance planning an easy process.

A ship’s captain decides to have some fun by scaring away the flock of seagulls resting on the ship’s deck. What results is a beautiful and interesting scene which only mariners get a chance to witness. Watch the video inside the article.

This film tells the story of how IMO, a specialised agency of the United Nations, and IPIECA, an oil industry body, work together to help create resources and expertise in areas least able to cope with the disastrous effects of a oil spill.