A fire inside the cargo hold of a 656-foot break-bulk carrier prompted a large regional emergency response at the Port of Vancouver on the night of February 18, 2026. According to the Vancouver Fire Department, crews were dispatched just after 9 p.m. after smoke and...
A deadly engine room fire aboard the Singapore-flagged bulk carrier Mandy has claimed the lives of two seafarers and left another crew member injured while the vessel was sailing off the coast of China on February 17, 2026. The 180,000-dwt Capesize bulk carrier was...
Two people escaped without injury after their boat caught fire Sunday afternoon on Lake Ray Hubbard in Heath, Texas. Dallas Fire-Rescue units were dispatched at approximately 4:44 p.m. following reports of a vessel in flames. When Marine 1 arrived, firefighters found...
An explosion and fire aboard a 50-foot sailboat in Port Townsend, Washington, left two people with severe burn injuries on February 15, 2026. East Jefferson Fire Rescue responded at approximately 11:58 a.m. to reports of a vessel explosion in the Glen Cove...
On February 9, 2026, two men were able to swim ashore after a 17-foot Sunbird boat capsized near the mouth of the Deer River in Mobile County, Alabama, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. ALEA reported the incident occurred at approximately 3:09 p.m. The...
On Saturday morning, a recreational boating accident off West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, California, led to the rescue of six people after a small vessel capsized in heavy surf. Emergency crews responded to multiple reports of people in the water near 701 West Cliff...
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search on Saturday, January 31, 2026, for six missing people after a commercial fishing vessel reported missing off the Massachusetts coast. The 72-foot fishing boat Lily Jean was traveling in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Ann when...
A barge carrying junk cars and scrap metal caught fire on January 12, 2026, prompting the U.S. Coast Guard to temporarily halt traffic in the Mobile Shipping Channel near Mobile, Alabama. The closure covered the stretch between mile markers 2 and 4, south of the...
One man was killed and another rescued following a boating collision on Crescent Lake in Putnam County, Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The crash occurred during the early morning hours of January 9, 2026, near Bear Island,...
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a cruise ship near Cuba on New Year’s Day, according to officials. The incident occurred aboard the Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Statendam while it was sailing in...