Authorities are responding to a major chemical incident in Channelview, Texas, after an estimated one million gallons of spent sulfuric acid were released early Saturday morning at an industrial facility along the Houston Ship Channel. Officials say the leak is now...
Fire crews responded late Thursday night to a boat fire in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida canal after a vessel became fully engulfed in flames. The incident occurred just after 11:30 p.m. on December 26, 2025, in a canal south of River Reach Drive. Fort Lauderdale Fire...
A commercial fisherman was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after his vessel caught fire approximately 100 miles west of Clearwater, Florida, according to Coast Guard officials. The incident occurred on Sunday, December 15, 2025, far offshore in the Gulf of Mexico....
An Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, commonly known as an EPIRB, is a life-saving distress device designed to help locate vessels and individuals during maritime emergencies. EPIRBs are used worldwide on commercial vessels, fishing boats, and recreational...
On November 2, 2024, an engine room fire broke out aboard the dredging vessel Stuyvesant while it was holding station on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Florida. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported that one crewmember was removed by the...
First responders rescued three fishermen after a small fishing boat overturned in Tomales Bay near Dillon Beach, California, on Friday, December 12, 2025. Marin County Firefighters and deputies with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a capsized...
A nighttime boating trip in the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal turned dangerous on December 6, 2025, when a 30-foot center-console boat struck a fixed navigational marker near Chestnut Springs Road in Chesapeake City. The collision occurred shortly before 11...
A large multi-agency emergency response was activated on the morning of November 26, 2025, after an engine room fire erupted aboard the M/V Chiquita Voyager, a Liberia-flagged container ship docked at the Port of Wilmington in Delaware. The first 911 call came in...
On the evening of November 21, 2025, a serious fire broke out aboard the container ship One Henry Hudson while it was docked at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. According to local reports, the electrical fire started below deck around 6:38 p.m.,...
A tragic fatal incident occurred on November 14, 2025, aboard the Valaris 121 jack-up drilling rig located approximately 140 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland. Officials confirmed that 32-year-old Lee Hulse tragically died after falling from a crane during the early...