The boats, overloaded and in poor condition, cannot withstand the harsh weather conditions at sea. In July 2024, a boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire off Cap-Haïtien, leaving 40 dead and ...

Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its ...

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Sweden has sent a formal request to China to cooperate with an investigation into suspected sabotage over the sudden disruption of two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea earlier this ...

By Michael Schwirtz Muyi Xiao and Riley Mellen For more than a week, a Chinese commercial ship has apparently been forced to anchor in the Baltic Sea, surrounded and monitored by naval and coast ...

Two Britons are among the missing after a dive boat was hit by a “huge wave” and capsized off the Red Sea coast of Egypt on Monday 25 November. In a rescue operation, 28 people were saved from ...

The five passengers found alive on Tuesday following the sinking of the Egyptian Red Sea liveaboard Sea Story were found in their cabins, according to one of the men involved in rescuing them. The ...

MANILA, Philippines — An “extraordinarily large” fleet of Chinese ships were spotted inside the territorial sea of Pagasa (Thitu) Island, a West Philippine Sea monitor said on Wednesday. As of Tuesday ...

Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday from a tourist boat which capsized off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, and rescue teams were still searching for seven missing people, the Red Sea Governorate said ...

This handout picture released by the Egyptian State Information Service shows Red Sea governor Amr Hanafi speaking to survivors rescued from a capsized vessel in the Red Sea harbour town of Marsa ...

The Sea Story was carrying 44 including 31 tourists and 13 crew on a multi-day diving trip when it went down south of the coastal town of Marsa Alam at around 5.30am local time on Monday.