Fourteen Missing As Cargo Vessel Sinks Off Papua Reports say that  a cargo vessel carrying building materials for the construction of bridges, sank off the coast of Papua near Asmat. The vessel was enroute from Timika Port in...

Accident : Sinking of a vessel Date : 13th February 2016 Vessel type involved : Tanker Location : Malacca Strait off Dumai Casualties : One dead Pollution : Not reported According to the reports, the engine room of the vessel suffered with water ingress in Indonesian...

Incident : Oil Spill due to Hydraulic Hose rupture Casualty : None Pollution : 500 ml of hydraulic oil spilled into the sea The vessel was at port and the ship’s crane was used to lift packaging and general stores...

I Want Her to Want Me: Where Men, Sex and Personality Meet Conventional research shows that, men have a tendency to misjudge a woman's sexual intent, often based on individual or situational factors such as...

German submarine U-352 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.  German submarine U-352 was laid down on 11 March 1940 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft yard at Flensburg, launched...

U.S. shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’(HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has begun testing the updated catapult systems aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Working with the Navy crew aboard Abraham Lincoln,...

Libyan Coastguards Detain Suspected Fuel-Smuggling Ship Reports say that on Saturday, the Libyan coastguards intercepted a vessel with 12 foreign crew members suspected of smuggling diesel.  They came across the suspicious vessel while conducting a...

The International Maritime Organisation has released a circular informing that there would be no trade and travel restrictions due to outbreak of Zika virus. The Zika Virus was first detected in America in 2015.  The...

In February 1996 the Sea Empress ran aground and spilled nearly 72,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea, contaminating around 120 miles of Welsh coastline.  Since then the authorities seemed to have learnt...

Fiji Ports Corporation Ltd (FPCL) has put in place some strong measures in an effort to stop pollution at sea and in beach areas.  This is to fix the dirty port of Fiji due...