Joe Lewis, the convicted billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., can use his superyacht again after paying a US$5m fine. The 98-metre Aviva — which Lewis put up for collateral for bail last year — has been in a Mediterranean port for most of the last 12 months. In January, the British billionaire pleaded guilty […]
A new study, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK, has revealed five high-risk zones where floating plastic litter poses the greatest risk to North Atlantic marine life. Marine plastic litter is a truly global pollution problem. An estimated 19 to 23 million metric tons of plastic waste entered the world’s aquatic ecosystems in […]
Dubai has been left reeling after the equivalent of a year and a half’s worth of rain fell in just a few hours. There have so far been 20 deaths in the UAE and neighbouring Oman as a result of the flooding. The arid city-state Dubai — the largest city in the UAE — has […]
A man has been arrested in New York after stealing a decommissioned New York City fireboat on the city’s Hudson River, before getting stuck and attempting to steal a sailboat, according to the NYPD. Authorities report that the 22-year-old jumped into the 40-metre fireboat, known as the John J. Harvey, which was moored at Pier […]
Riva has revealed more details of its 8.4-metre runabout El-Iseo, the brand’s first full-electric powerboat. The Italian boatbuilder, a brand of Ferretti Group, unveiled the first El-Iseo prototype in late 2022 at the Monaco Yacht Club. The prototype has since undergone various tests, including participation in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge with the YCM E-Dock […]
Over 100 people are understood to have died, with almost 20 still missing, after an overcrowded, makeshift ferry capsized off the coast of Nampula, northern Mozambique. Officials say the disaster happened after panic broke out after disinformation related to a cholera outbreak spread. The vessel, a converted fishing boat, was carrying around 130 people on […]
Suntex Marina Investors has established a new joint venture that plans to acquire more than $1.25bn worth of marina property in the United States. The firm, one of the largest marina owners in the US, has partnered with Centerbridge Partners and other Centerbridge-affiliated funds and global institutional investors, according to a statement released on Wednesday […]
Eight people have scrambled through a series of African countries to rejoin their cruise ship after it left São Tomé and Príncipe without them. The passengers missed their ship’s scheduled departure time from the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of Gabon, after disembarking to take a local tour, […]
Rescue teams have saved a large humpback whale that got caught in fishing ropes off the coast of Cornwall, UK. The whale, known as Ivy, became entangled in the ropes in Cornwall’s Mounts Bay, between Mousehole and Newlyn, on Easter Sunday (31 March 2024). The struggling whale was first spotted by a concerned fishing vessel, […]
Alarming new figures show that the number of sewage spills into England’s rivers and seas by water companies more than doubled last year. The Environment Agency, the regulatory body that oversees environmental protection in England, has published its Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) data for 2023, which shows the frequency and duration of spills from storm […]
A property tycoon has been found guilty of a £3.5m fraud over claims he sold houseboats on a stretch of the river Thames that could not be lived in. Myck Djurberg, 64, was convicted on Tuesday (19 March 2024) at Kingston Crown Court in London for fraudulently selling houseboats without appropriate planning permission. Djurberg purchased […]