PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Vermont man at the center of an inheritance dispute contributed to the 2016 sinking of the boat from which his mother was lost at sea, a federal judge ruled...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lt. Thomas J.E. Crotty's capture during World War II made him the first Coast Guard prisoner of war since the War of 1812.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — The 34 people who died in a diving boat fire off Southern California are being remembered by those who shared their love of the sea.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the deadly California dive boat fire investigation (all times local):
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Hundreds have gathered to remember the 34 scuba divers killed when their...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Just hours after a fire raced through a scuba diving boat, a memorial started sprouting up to commemorate the lives of 34 people who died trapped below...
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany and the Netherlands were searching Thursday for up to 270 shipping containers lost at sea by a cargo ship caught in a storm, saying that a few of them are carrying hazardous material. A bag of the substance washed ashore on a Dutch island.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — For nearly six decades, a Marine Corps sergeant's family lived under the misconception that his body was lost at sea during World War II.
Killed in what has been called the bloody Battle of Tarawa, David Quinn's remains have been identified and are on their way home to New Hampshire.
Funeral services with full military honors will be held for the 24-year-old on May 5 at the Congregational Church of Temple.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A sailor in the Volvo Ocean Race is presumed lost at sea after going overboard in the harsh, remote Southern Ocean some 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn.
John Fisher, a native of Britain who lived in Adelaide, Australia, went overboard from Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag's 65-foot sloop in rough conditions Monday.
HONOLULU (AP) — Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot (9-meter) waves and near hurricane-force winds on the night they set sail, despite records that show no severe weather in the area at the time.
HONOLULU (AP) — The dramatic story of two Honolulu women who were lost at sea for nearly six months before being rescued by the U.S. Navy played out on front pages and websites worldwide. But in the days since, inconsistencies in their account have come to light, and some of their story has changed.
Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava said they intended to take their sailboat, the Sea Nymph, from Honolulu to Tahiti, then sail around the South Pacific before heading back to Honolulu in November.
Lost Sailors Did Not Activate Emergency Beacon
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that the two Hawaii women who say they were lost at sea never activated their emergency beacon, adding to a growing list of inconsistences that cast doubt on the women's harrowing tale of survival.
HONOLULU (AP) — Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning to believe they were completely out of luck when they finally saw it: a U.S. Navy ship chugging toward them.
"When I saw the gray ship on the horizon, I was just shaking," Appel told reporters Friday. "I was ready to cry, I was so happy. I knew we were going to live."
HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of two women lost at sea since May (all times local):
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The two women who spent nearly six months lost at sea attempted daily to communicate with the outside world.
But adding to the doomed nature of the trip was complete communications failure.
Raw: 2 Mariners Rescued After Months Lost at Sea
HONOLULU (AP) — Two women and their dogs have been rescued after being lost at sea for months while trying to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti.
The U.S. Navy rescued the women on Wednesday after a Taiwanese fishing vessel spotted them about 900 miles southeast of Japan, well off their planned course, and alerted the U.S. Coast Guard.
The USS Ashland arrived early the next day, the Navy said in a statement released Thursday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Insurance company lawyers on Monday blasted a Vermont man whose mother was lost at sea, saying he made suspicious alterations to his boat before what they called its "most curious sinking."
Lawyers for Nathan Carman's insurance company said in documents filed in federal court that the Vernon man is refusing to cooperate as they investigate his claim for his boat, which sank during a fishing trip he and his mother, Linda Carman, took out of Rhode Island in September 2016.
PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Before the year is over, a 16-foot-tall statue of a mermaid rising from the water will stand on Louisiana's waterfront as a memorial to all who have died at sea.
Cindie Roussel, whose son was lost diving in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011, worked with families of some of the men who died when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught fire in 2010 to commission The Lady of the Gulf Seaman's Memorial .
The family of a man suspected in the slaying of his millionaire grandfather filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire on Monday accusing him of killing his grandfather and possibly his mother, who was lost at sea during a mother-son fishing trip, in a bid to collect a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Carrying a bouquet of pink and purple flowers, Nathan Carman met with about a dozen others Wednesday for a private church service in memory of his mother, who is presumed dead after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean during a mother-and-son fishing trip.
Absent from the service were his mother's three sisters, who questioned the timing of the event while the sinking remains under investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Police have searched the home of a woman who went missing at sea during a fishing trip with her son and is presumed dead.
Officers were seen removing bags, envelopes and boxes from 54-year-old Linda Carman's home in Middletown on Thursday night. They have said they are investigating "the facts and circumstances" surrounding her disappearance.
Local police and officers from South Kingstown, Rhode Island, conducted the search.
BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a Vermont man who was rescued after being lost at sea for a week (all times local):
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Court records show that a Vermont man who spent a week on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean before he was rescued recently was a suspect in the unsolved 2013 killing of his grandfather in Connecticut.
BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a Vermont man who was rescued after being lost at sea for a week (all times local):
5:40 p.m.
Court records show that a Vermont man who spent a week on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean before he was rescued recently was a suspect in the unsolved 2013 killing of his grandfather in Connecticut.