After 221 days alone at sea, 73-year-old French sailor, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, returned to where he started, Les Sables d’Olonne, France, winning the Golden Globe Race. He crossed the finish line at 0900 local time this morning aboard his Rustler 36, Matmut. The veteran sailor now holds the record for being the oldest person to complete a solo round the world yacht race.
Van Den Heed was met on his arrival by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, who won the original 1968-1969 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. Of nine sailors who began the original race, only Knox-Johnson finished in 1969. Of the 18 sailors who began the current Golden Globe, four sailors are still competing to complete the race.
The El Dorado, a 157 foot-long, 300-ton, casino boat broke free from her moorings when 
No doubt about it. Winter is with us with a vengeance. On Friday rising waters and ice jams on the Hudson River between Albany and Troy, New York tore 
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s voyage to Australia, 
Excentric Australian billionaire Clive Palmer made quite a splash in 2012 when he announced his plans to build 
There is a tragic irony in the collision of the guided-missile cruiser 
The Hawaii State Department of Transportation Harbors division has given the caretaker group, Friends of the Falls of Clyde, until 
Recently the containership MOL Empire passed an 
In 2013, a 20′ great white shark was caught on video by Mexican shark expert Mauricio Hoyos Padilla off Guadalupe Island. Believed to be the largest great white shark ever filmed and among the largest great whites ever encountered, she was nicknamed “
As the wholly unnecessary and reckless partial government shutdown rolls on, 41,000 active duty US Coast Guard personnel are still doing their jobs, without getting paid. Roughly 8,500 civilian support staff are furloughed, also without paychecks.
For Throwback Thursday, an updated repost of an event from ten years ago — the other “Miracle on the Hudson.” 
In November 2015, the German Navy training ship, 
Today marks the 100th year anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood, which inundated Boston’s North End sending a wall of molasses, killing 21 and injuring 150.
Much of the media have taken the claims of Boyan Slat at face value. The young Dutch engineer has claimed that his design for a series of floating ocean booms will clean the oceans of plastic. The BBC headline in 2014 which read, “
A new analysis published in the journal 
In August of 1772, a powerful hurricane devastated much of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. On the island of St. Croix, the town of Christiansted was virtually leveled. An impoverished 17-year-old clerk, who worked for a local merchant, 
The Dungeness crab season opened late in the Northwest, starting last Friday, January 4th. The weather was terrible, with high winds and waves. Conditions were especially challenging on river bars, where the river’s current opposing the ocean waves can raise monstrous breakers.