The Greek-owned 75,000 tonne bulk carrier, MV Oliva, ran aground on March 16th on Nightingale Island, a 4 square kilometer island in the Tristan da Cuhna archipelago in the South Atlantic. The resulting oil spill threatened nearly half of the world population of endangered Northern Rockhopper penguins. Three thousand six hundred penguins were admitted to a “rehab centre” on Tristan da Cunha after the oil spill. Recently, the first 24 penguins were released from the center back into the wild.
First Tristan penguins released from ‘rehab’
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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.
As the sands of Fire Island are swallowing 
The Ducks have returned to the Delaware River. Not mallards, but duck boats. 
The Coast Guard released a report yesterday that was highly critical of Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon drill rig, which exploded and sank last year.
It is not champagne, but whiskey bottles which are still appearing from the sands where the sailing ship Stuart wrecked 110 years ago on Easter Sunday off the Llyn peninsula of Northern Wales.
In July of last year 
Douglas Faulkner, who died recently, had a varied and highly accomplished career as a naval and marine architect. He was involved in the design and testing of the first British nuclear submarine,