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Of all the alarms going off while another Seahawks season crumbles, the one sounded by quarterback Matt Hasselbeck rings loudest.
The state of New Mexico has spent more than a half-million dollars investigating and monitoring a giant cavern a few hundred feet beneath the ground in southeastern New Mexico.
The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.
An overloaded river ferry capsized on its way to a Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia, killing 17 passengers in a tributary of the Mekong River, an official said Sunday.
Italian authorities plan to expand Venice's port into a bustling shipping hub, further endangering the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the treasured city built on water, a conservation group said Monday.
A 13-year project to create a new artificial reef off the Florida Keys for sport divers and anglers culminated Wednesday with the scuttling of a 523-foot-long former U.S. Air Force missile tracking ship.
No matter how much new coach Alvin Gentry has revved up the Phoenix offense, the Suns can't keep up with the competition in the West.
President Barack Obama's ambitious plans for a new era of big-government activism depend on a full economic recovery — and those prospects don't look good anytime soon.
A Canadian Coast Guard ship rescued all 22 people from a burning Spanish fishing trawler in the North Atlantic on Sunday, just as the fisherman were leaping into the water.
A small ferry overloaded with holiday shoppers sank in central Vietnam on Sunday, killing at least 40 people ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year.
Taiwan's coast guard says patrol boats are searching for 19 missing seamen after their fishing boat foundered in rough seas.
A ferry sank in a river in Myanmar's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, killing nearly 40 people, state-media reported Friday.
The sea wall protecting the Jefferson Memorial from the Tidal Basin is sinking in spots and needs repair, a study concluded.
Heavy sediment deposited in the Mississippi River delta in the last ice age has caused New Orleans to sink and will continue to drag down coastal Louisiana bit by bit for hundreds of years, according to a new study by NASA and Louisiana State University scientists.
This desert oasis east of Los Angeles sold itself for decades on water and all the luxury it brings: strings of emerald golf courses, lush resorts and manicured neighborhoods with sparkling pools.
Squealing pigs lit out for the bush and Filomena Taroa herded the grandkids to higher ground last week when the sea rolled in deeper than anyone had ever seen.
About 2,500 penguins en route to their Antarctic mating grounds could be sickened by a diesel fuel spill from a cruise boat that struck an iceberg and sank last week, Chilean scientists said Friday.
The last group of survivors from the Antarctic cruise ship that struck an iceberg and slipped into the icy sea were flown back to the South American mainland Sunday.
More than 50 people were missing after a boat — possibly being ferried by human traffickers — sank Sunday off a southern Bangladesh island bordering Myanmar waters, a police official said.
A rare calm in Antarctic seas and the swift response by a passing ship helped save all aboard a Canadian cruise liner that struck an iceberg in the night and sank, rescued passengers and experienced sailors said Saturday.
A Canadian cruise ship struck submerged ice off Antarctica and began taking on water, but all 154 passengers and crew took to lifeboats and were rescued safely Friday by a passing Norwegian liner, officials said.
Russian emergency teams battled high winds Sunday as they attempted to rescue the Russian crew of a cargo ship that sank in the Sea of Japan, officials said.
Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
Swedish ferries equipped with 'sinking' life ringsMany of the life buoys on Swedish passenger ferries have a defect that causes them to sink when they hit the water.
Titanic anniversary cruise to repeat original route, menuThe historic journey will leave Southampton in early April, 2012 and will reach the exact location where the Titanic sank on April 14, 2012, marking the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
World's river deltas sinking due to human activityA new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates most of the world's low-lying river deltas are sinking from human activity, making them increasingly vulnerable to flooding from rivers and ocean storms and putting tens of millions of people at risk.
Imagine your are busily enjoying a boat ride with four people who have served you well. In fact, you have grown so close to them, you are treating them to a cruise in your yacht.
Pictured: The timeless piece of history which stopped working when its owner drowned in Titanic sinkingExcerpt: A pocket watch which stopped and froze at the exact time a newlywed Titanic passenger fell into the sea and drowned has gone on display for the first time.
Sinking island's nationals seek new homeThe new president of the Maldives wants to relocate -- his entire country.
Attempts Were Made to ban 1947 Titanic playIt seems that there's a lot of Titanic news right now, I guess it's because today is the anniversary. Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.
In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic's DoomFor a decade, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the storied liner went down fast after hitting the iceberg because the ship's builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. More than 1,500 people died.
Communication Between Two Ships at Sea [Video]The recent brouhaha over the confrontation between U.S. and Iranian ships has brought to the fore [or should I say the ''bow''] the importance of good communication at sea. Here's a humorous example of one possible scenario where communications break down...
Sinking ship 'struck iceberg' More than 150 passengers and crew aboard a sinking ship in the Antarctic, which is believed to have collided with an iceberg, have been rescued to safety, officials said.
Cruise ship sinking in Antarctica More than 150 passengers and crew are adrift in lifeboats off the coast of Argentina after a cruise liner hit an unidentified object and started sinking.
Was the titanic sunk by a small key? | gCaptain.comNew evidence suggests the Titanic's lookout missed seeing the iceburg because his binoculars were stored in a locker and someone lost the key!
Violet Jessup was an employee of the famous White Star Lines and considered to be fortunate to be picked for the crew of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Olympic, a stewardess she would find herself busy aboard the most prestigious ship afloat at the time, but fate would intervene as a …
Ships Collide in TurkeyOne of two cargo ships sank after they collided off Darica hamlet of Gebze town of northwestern city of Kocaeli. One person was reported missing after the collision and another was injured.
gCaptain Exclusive - Sailing in Severe Weather Lessons LearnedIn a gCaptain exclusive we were able to discuss the May 2007 abandonment of the s/v Sean Seamour II with her captain Jean Pierre de Lutz.
London's Small But Relentless Dip: Alarm Spreads Over Sinking CityA new assessment of land and sea level changes in London and the Thames estuary has been made by scientists. Their study - based on tide gauge, GPS, gravity, and satellite measurements - shows a general pattern of subsidence of 1-2mm a year.
Tokyo Disneyland to join Davy Jones and the Little Mermaid at the Bottom of the Briny?Tokyo Disneyland is rumored to be sinking, according to Cyzo (July). The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction will be re-opened on July 20 after refurbishment, but there's a rumor floating around that the ride had to be fixed because it wasn't, well, floating.
Breaking News: Thousands of people lining beaches to save ship's crew.Thousands of people are lining Newcastle's beaches in driving rain and gale-force winds as rescue helicopters attempt to retrieve the Filipino crew of a coal freighter which has run aground in heavy seas.
UPDATE - Empress of the North's Long History of TroubleThis is actually the 4th grounding of the vessel "Empress of the Sea".By reviewing the USCG incident reports along with some google powered research we were able to Empress of the North's Lifeboats find at least three groundings in addition to today's incident.
UPDATE - This is Alaska Cruise Ship's Second Grounding.The cruise ship (Empress of the North) that hit a rock off Juneau Alaska this morning had an eerilly similar incident in the Columbia River last year. As the 2006 Issue of the US Coast Guard's magazine Proceedings then reported:
The island of Santorini is the site of a sunken cruise ship. On Thursday the cruise ship Sea Diamond ran aground just offshore from Santorini. The ship which had left from the Port of Piraeus on Monday and scheduled for a five cruise and to return back on Friday.
Cars and ship are sinkingNearly 5000 cars are going to sink along with the ship carrying them as the crew of the Asian ship prepare to abandon it. The ship was on route from Japan to Canada when it began listing badly in the North Pacific. Hope your new car wasn't been delivered by this ship.
Fifty years later, Andrea Doria survivors gather, and shudder stillPHILADELPHIA - Scattered like marbles on a wax-shined dance floor, passengers aboard the 29,000-ton luxury ocean liner Andrea Doria panicked and prayed, some of them screaming "Titanic!" and "iceberg!"
New Orleans Sinking Faster Than ThoughtEveryone has known New Orleans is a sinking city. Now new research suggests parts of the city are sinking even faster than many scientists imagined — more than an inch a year. Is it just me, or is rebuilding some parts of this city moronic?
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