Caribbean Fantasy response continues

AUGUST 19, 2016 — As response efforts continued, the Coast Guard said yesterday that the fire remained active aboard the 561-foot passenger ferry vessel Caribbean Fantasy approximately half a mile off of

Salvors set to board grounded Transocean semi

AUGUST 14, 2016 — The U.K. Maritime & Coastguard Agency reports that a team of eight salvors from Transocean and Smit was this morning making its way on board the drilling rig

NTSB recovers El Faro VDR

AUGUST 9  — The voyage data recorder (VDR) from El Faro, the TOTE cargo ship that sank during Hurricane Joaquin in October 2015, was successfully recovered from the ocean floor late Monday

NTSB set to launch El Faro VDR recovery mission

JUNE 7, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board says it will launch a mission early July to recover the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the TOTE cargo ship El Faro. The

Grounded laker: lightered, refloated, anchored

JUNE 6, 2016 — After successful lightering operations that began Friday (see earlier story) the grounded Great Lakes self-unloader Roger Blough has been refloated and, by Saturday afternoon, was safely anchored in

Lightering of grounded Great Lakes bulker gets underway

JUNE 3, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard says that it continues to monitor and respond as lightering operations, which began this morning, continue on the grounded Great Lakes self-unloading bulker Roger

Ardent celebrates its first birthday

JUNE 3, 2016 — Houston headquartered Ardent, the company created by the merger of Crowley Maritime’s Titan Salvage and the Maersk Group’s Svitzer Salvage, has just celebrated its first birthday. “One year

USCG continues response to grounded laker

MAY 31, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard today was continues to monitor and respond to the motor vessel Roger Blough. The 833 ft, 1972-built self-unloading bulker, owned by Great Lakes Fleet,

VIDEO: Crane raises tug that sank near Tappan Zee Bridge

MARCH 24, 2016 — New York local news stations today showed footage of the 84 ft tugboat Specialist slowly being raised from beneath the Tappan Zee Bridge. The tug sank March 12

VIDEO: Damaged bulker completes river transit

MARCH 24, 2016 — The 54,881 dwt Panamanian flagged bulk carrier Sparna is now awaiting repairs pierside in North Kalama, WA, after briefly grounding near river marker 36 in Oregon on Monday

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