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Federal agents have cited 15 charter boat companies that take anglers out into the Gulf of Mexico for a variety of violations, such as working without permits, fishing out of season and catching undersized fish.
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.
giving boblo boats a renew look Michigan's boblo boats coming back, giving a new clean looker. To head down the detroit river. should be a great time
New device brings wireless Internet to boatsWe have Internet access in planes now (Virgin America offers it in the US, for example), so why not on boats? That's what one of Japan's biggest telecommunications companies, KDDI, thought and now gives us a device that will allow ship passengers to enjoy wireless broadband I …
GNW-Annual Antique Boat Show and Raceboat Reunion setThe 32nd annual Antique Boat Show and Raceboat Reunion will be held from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Saturday at the Buffalo Launch Club on Grand Island.
Severe Flooding Overtakes Middleburg - Friday evening's deluge forced Jacksonville police to shut down 10th Street in Springfield because of flooding, but the worst of the weather seems to have hit Clay County. In one Middleburg neighborhood, people were getting around by boat instead of car.
Well, not that life isn't hectic enough with keeping up with the house, mowing the big yard (it grows incessantly, I fill a trailer full of cuttings every week and the yard still looks like crap-how's that happen?), running my littlest one around to various softball games (2 leag …
What happened in 1969, the year I was born? July 4, 1969: Independence Day Flood The most devastating summer flooding in Ohio history struck north-central Ohio during the state's stormiest Independence Day.
Ethanol Industry's 15% Solution Raises Concerns : alcohol reacts with materials that gasoline doesn'tThe Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to make an important and far-reaching decision this year that will affect more than 500 million gasoline engines powering everything from large pickups to family cars to lawn mowers: whether to grant the ethanol industry's reques …
Louisiana Fried Brains This recipe will be famous in my family for some time to come. At my age, I should know better, but hey, I was like a German Shepherd going for a ride in a truck.
Too Costly to Keep, Boats Become Castaways Boat owners are abandoning ship.
Obama Stimulus Saves Microsoft Billionaire Hundreds Of MillionsBillionaire Paul Allen is a Microsoft cofounder, the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the owner of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers. And, thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed this week, he's also about to be as much as a billion dollars richer.
Angelina Jolie asks Thai government to aid refugeesOscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has asked Thailand to permit greater freedom for thousands of refugees stuck in camps after fleeing neighboring Myanmar, according to a U.N. statement released Friday.
German shipping traffic blocked as rivers freezeA week of record-breaking subzero temperatures has frozen stretches of Germany's rivers, hindering boat traffic in several places around the country, the shipping authorities reported on Friday.
The Poor Fishermen of SomaliaFiring shots at a luxury cruise ship, taking a super tanker hostage: the papers are full of Somalia's audacious pirates. But the local fishermen grab fewer headlines -- and have a stricken existence.
Amazing Houseboats -- Hit the High Seas in StyleIt's pretty much impossible to look at a beautiful houseboat and not imagine yourself leaving everything behind to start a new life in an exotic port, battling pirates from time to time.That last part may only be in our daydreams, but the point is, living on the water could be aw …
Yacht/boat Renaming Ceremony Yacht /Boat Renaming Ceremony This is the method of renaming your yacht or boat so you will not offend the gods of the sea, L
Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembledArchaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft
Dr. Michael DeBakey Is Dead at 99 Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died.
World's Biggest and Most Expensive Ship Under ConstructionIt's destined to be the world's largest cruise ship—when launched next year, Royal Caribbean's US$1.24 billion Project Genesis will be 1,180 feet long, and carry 5400 passengers (6,400 at a pinch).
Scientists May Have Found Titanic's Weak Link So, after all this time we now know it was the rivets and not the iceberg. Or maybe it was Global warming. Or.....
Topless Charter fishing boat banned from marinaA group on innovative Women had a great idea. Topless fishing charters. Once out in the ocean, in International waters, the bikini clad women removed the tops of their bathing suits. Well...someone complained. It figures.
Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to UnravelA good explanation and comparison of the Iranian-Speedboat incident and how it's related to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Very well thought out analysis.
U.S. sends formal protest to Iran over incidentWASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The United States protested formally to the Iranian government on Thursday over an incident in which Iranian speedboats confronted U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
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