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Dominique Williams ran for 114 yards and two touchdowns and Tyler Newberry threw for two scores to lead Wagner to a 41-10 win over New York Maritime on Thursday night.
The Supreme Court has ruled that seamen injured on the job may sue for punitive damages when employers refuse to pay for medical care and time off.
The second-in-command of a ship seized this month by pirates off Africa has been injured in a car crash in Massachusetts.
In the first major revision of U.S. naval strategy in two decades, maritime officials said Wednesday they plan to focus more on humanitarian missions and improving international cooperation as a way to prevent conflicts.
An aging ferry sank in the choppy waters of the Red Sea on Friday with more than 1,400 people on board, mainly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia. Most were feared lost but officials said at least 314 made it to safety.
Pirates hijack tanker off Somali coast Pirates off Somalia's coast have hijacked a chemical tanker with a North Korean crew, European naval forces reported.
Lobsterman charged with shooting competitorA grand jury has indicted a Maine lobsterman accused of shooting another in the neck during a confrontation.
People discuss this issue as though it is too difficult and complex to deal with. Look, here are several simple suggestions that will put an immediate end to their shenanigans. First, change the maritime laws so cargo ships can carry arms and defend themselves if attacked.
This week, much of our attention has been riveted by the spectacle of hijacking on the high seas. All the drama of a Hollywood swashbuckler was brought to us every ten minutes or so, and we have been transfixed by the anachronism of piracy in the 21st Century.
Household income has gone down. Seven million more Americans do not have medical insurance. Another 3 million manufacturing jobs lost. The number of foreclosures doubled last year. Gas prices doubled. College costs are exploding. Health care costs are skyrocketing.
Guilty - Cosco Busan Pilot John Coata Faces JailtimeFirst revealed on gCaptain's Professional Mariner Forum last week, the news is now official… John Cota, pilot of the Cosco Busan, the ship that damaged San Francisco's Bay Bridge causing an oil spill, has plead guilty to charges and faces jail time.
The history of the Great Lakes is full of ships defeated by the harsh winter storms. November is the most notorious month for sunken ships. That was the month that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, a ship that has been immortalized in song.
HMS Victory: why the sinking feeling? For centuries, Victory seemed destined to remain part of maritime legend as one of the great lost treasure ships – until last Monday, when a US underwater salvage firm announced that it had found Victory and had been secretly working on the wreck since May 2008.
Overboard: Woman Lost at SeaExcerpt: The U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican authorities are searching for an American woman who went missing on a cruise ship near Cancun, Mexico. Jennifer Seitz, 36, may have gone overboard.
The Maritime Executive Magazine :: A New Solution To a Pressing Problem Of Maritime PiracyThe dynamic in the Gulf of Aden is changing by the day. The last two weeks brought news of two separate attacks on Cruise Ships and a determined attack against a convoy under the protection of an Italian navy destroyer.
U.S. Cruise Ship Nearly Hijacked by Pirates, 1000 AboardPirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday.
Great game of hunting pirates[Published summary:] - Under the rubric of the fight against sea piracy, an entirely different template of maritime activity is taking place by interventionist powers.
Somalian pirates 'out of control' warns international maritime groupAs another oil tanker is seized, a maritime group warns what most of us have already come to believe: Somalian pirates are "out of control" and no one is stopping them.
Massive NorthCom 'Homeland Defense' Joint Exercise Is Under WayThis week and into next, NorthCom and NORAD are conducting a joint exercise called "Vigilant Shield '09." The focus will be on "homeland defense and civil support," a NorthCom press release states.
Many ports, ships miss anti-terror deadlineU.S. Coast Guard begins boarding ships entering U.S. portsThursday's deadline for compliance with tough new maritime security laws saw a rush of last-minute paperwork by ports and ships complying with the new code.
A Ship Versus The Rock Of GibraltarEMERGENCY services from Gibraltar and Spain mounted a joint operation last night to save 31 seafarers whose cargo ship, the M/V Fedra, ran aground against Europa Point in severe weather. Yideo and Photos
USA Currently Under At Least 4 States of EmergencyOn November 19, 1973, the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency presented Senate Report 93-549 at the first session of the 93rd Congress- The Introduction to the report, an examination of existing War and Emergency Powers Acts, states:
...When one is faced with the matter of understanding just how and why congress and the president can just disregard the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, it seems they're defying the law by putting their own self interests, and that of big corporations ahead of the interests …
AUSTRALIA: Terror warning system 'useless'[Excerpt:] - THOUSANDS of large ships entering Australian waters and ports each year have been fitted with anti-terror warning systems that are useless in preventing acts of terrorism.
Superstitious town bans whistlingA superstitious coastal town has imposed a month-long ban on whistling in an attempt to ensure good weather for its annual boating festival. Portsoy, in Banffshire, has revived an ancient maritime belief that whistling at sea brings ill winds.
According to Reuters, and a Fox News affiliate, US Naval personnel aboard a cargo chip contracted to the U.S. Military Sealift Command fired warning shots at two Iranian fast boats.
Breaking News: U.S.-contracted ship fires toward Iranian boatA cargo ship contracted by the U.S Military Sealift Command has fired at least one shot toward an Iranian boat, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.
Titanic's 'birthplace' open to public The secrets of the world's most famous ocean liner were unveiled yesterday in the very place of its birth, as the drawing offices in the old Harland & Wolff building were opened to the public.
Maritime Greenhouse Gas Emissions Three Times as Much as Previously ReportedLONDON (AFP) - Carbon emissions from merchant shipping are nearly three times as much as previously estimated, according to a draft United Nations study leaked to The Guardian on Wednesday.
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