Last week we posted that the Ohio River may be too high to allow the running of the Great Steamboat Race on May 4th. The river has just kept rising. Tonight the Army Corps of Engineers will blow up a Mississippi River levee, flooding farms in southern Missouri to save a flood-threatened Illinois town upstream near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. A legal challenge by the Missouri attorney general to stop the destruction of the levee failed Sunday, allowing the Corp to proceed with the plan.
Record-breaking floods force engineers to blow up Mississippi River levee
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US naval special forces commandos are called
The first of May is traditionally called May Day and is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. The English have been known to break out in fits of Morris Dancing around May Day. In many countries May Day is celebrated as International Workers Day or Labor Day.
Divers from
The US Coast Guard has updated its regulations, increasing the average weight per passenger for stability and loading calculations of tour and charter boats from 160 pounds to 185 pounds.
The Greek-owned 75,000 tonne bulk carrier, MV Oliva, ran aground on March 16th
A group in Beaufort, SC is bidding on acquiring the 
On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Callao, Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the 
Hailing from Florida, I am a huge fan of brown pelicans. I was therefore very pleased to hear that after several years where brown pelicans on the West Coast of the US have been mysteriously dying off, this year the flocks of pelicans have been unprecedentedly large.
The Ohio River may just be too high to allow the running of the 
In yesterday’s New York Times, Rose George of Leeds, UK was an Op-Ed Contributor. In her essay, 
A sign of changing times. A Russian submarine will be participating in a NATO undersea rescue exercise off the Spanish coast scheduled for next month.
For hundreds of years, coastal schooners carried cargoes up and down the hundred harbored coast of Maine. By the early part of the last century, the schooners were being replaced by trucks and trains. In 1936 Captain Frank Swift started buying laid up schooners to cruise in the Maine summers. Schooners that had carried stone, lumber, hay and all manner of goods, began carrying vacationers. Now 75 years later the Maine windjammer fleet is still going strong, preserving the schooners and their heritage while delighting tens of thousands who have sailed on them.