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 “Deep Blue.” The female shark, weighing an estimated 6,000 pounds, was featured prominently in the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” of 2104.
A few days ago, Deep Blue was seen once again, feeding on the carcass of a dead sperm whale roughly nine miles off the coast of Hawaiian island of Oahu. Great white sharks are relatively rare in the waters around Hawaii. Marine biologist, Ocean Ramsey, and several other divers recently spent a day swimming alongside the massive shark.
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. 
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The effort to save the Falls of Clyde has suffered at least a temporary setback. Last 
On New Year’s Eve 1918, over 200 men crowded the dock at the port of Kyle of Lochalsh waiting to the board the 
In 2010, 16-year-old 
Around 1,800 nautical miles northwest of Oahu, the car carrier Sincerity Ace is adrift and on fire. Sixteen of her Philippine crew have been rescued, while four are feared dead and one remains missing. The fire broke on on Monday on the Panamanian flag car carrier operated by Mitsui OSK Lines, traveling from Japan bound for Hawaii. The cause of the fire is still unknown. 
Here is a wonderful sea story which appears to be more or less true.