Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in 1947 on a wooden boat. Credit: Bjørn Fjørtoft / CC BY 4.0 In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl set out on an ambitious journey to challenge the accepted ...

It was not the first ghost boat to be discovered by fishermen, with more and more desperate migrants cramming onto rickety wooden boats that often fall apart or are blown across the Atlantic ...

Data updated on Thursday indicated that 451 migrants arrived on December 25 on 11 boats. The last time vessels carrying migrants were known to have arrived was on December 14, when 160 people ...

Some private sites run as high as $10,000 per year to boat out of, compared to the $1,000 price tag that comes with using the public bay. The full scope of funding for the Flushing Bay rehab is ...

A Montreal man is dead and several others are injured after a boat exploded in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The blast was caught on a surveillance video of a boat exploding around 6 p.m. on Monday ...

Five people were injured, and one person was found dead following a boat explosion at the Lauderdale Marina, officials said. It happened around 6 p.m. Dec. 23. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue (FLFR ...

A spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada provided more details about the incident, telling The Squamish Chief that the boat crash occurred at 7:47 p.m., Dec. 18. A tug ...

The parents of a teenage girl who was killed when she was dragged under the sea by a boat propeller say they are still looking for answers. Jenna Chan, 15, from Singapore, was out snorkelling on a ...

Mumbai Boat Accident: The tragic incident that occurred off the Mumbai coast when a Navy speedboat collided with a passenger ferry, resulting in the deaths of 14 individuals, has come under ...

On Wednesday, such a failure likely occurred, leading to the collision. Neelkamal is an old-fashioned V-shaped wooden boat prone to capsizing if it takes on water, though it will not sink.

Gateway of India accident ferry boat seen at Bhaucha Dhakka, in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Dec 19, 2024. (Bhushan Koyande/HT ) The Navy craft, undergoing engine trials, lost control and collided ...

The rebuild of the model boat led to a wilder idea: the construction of a second Independence; a full-size, operational replica ... With the prepared wood, Thorne and the others completed the ...