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Video: Dubai marina caught in severe flooding

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 […]

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Maritime, Commercial & Defence

Man arrested after historic New York fireboat taken for joyride

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 […]

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Video: Surreal moment two-storey houseboat floats across San Francisco Bay

A large, two-storey houseboat — featuring a white picket fence — has been seen floating across San Francisco Bay after its owners were told to leave the nearby marina. The floating home was towed through the bay to San Rafael after its owners were asked to leave Redwood City marina, which had once housed over […]

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Leisure Marine

Castaways rescued after writing ‘help’ on beach

Three mariners stranded on a deserted remote Pacific island for over a week have been rescued, after using palm fronds to write the word ‘help’ on the beach. The US Coast Guard confirms the three fishermen were rescued on 9 April 2024, following a coordinated rescue effort from Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam and the […]

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Maritime, Commercial & Defence

Eight passengers left on African island after cruise ship departs without them

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, […]

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Superyacht

Mark Zuckerberg rumoured to have bought a Feadship

The yachting world is currently speculating that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally bought a superyacht. Well, two. It’s being widely reported that Zuckerberg is suspected to be the new owner of Feadship’s Project 1010, now named Launchpad, as well as Wingman (ex-Dapple), a shadow vessel built by Damen Yachting (previously owned by Valve founder […]

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Video: Port worker injured after cargo ship collides with cranes

A crane operator has been seriously injured, after an out-of-control container ship collided with four cranes in a Turkish port, knocking three of them over. The incident happened when a Yang Ming Marine containership attempted to dock at the private port in Kocaeli, Turkey, on Saturday (16 March 2024) but failed to stop during its […]

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Leisure Marine Video

BA Concorde makes final journey, on a barge

British Airways’ Concorde has made its way back home to the Intrepid Museum in New York, via barge along the Hudson River. It follows a months-long restoration project in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Concorde was loaded onto a barge and travelled up the Hudson River to Weeks Marine in Jersey City for storage overnight before […]

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Man bitten by crocodile in Florida after capsizing sailboat

A 68-year-old man is in a stable condition after being bitten by a crocodile. The incident occurred after his sailboat capsized in Florida’s Everglades National Park. According to park officials, the rare incident happened at the Flamingo Marina when the man, named by local news outlets as Rodrigo Constain, capsized his Sunfish sailboat in the […]

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Leisure Marine

Londoners block plans for £25m late-night party yacht

Plans for a £25m ‘party yacht’ that was to have held late-night events on the River Thames have been scrapped, after local residents objected to the vessel. The entertainment firm Smart Group, which would have managed the boat, has confirmed the 86m luxury yacht Oceandiva would be leaving London and returning ‘to EU waters’. ‘It […]

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Leisure Marine

Panamanians survive 11 days adrift thanks to floating coconuts

Three Panamanian men have survived 11 days drifting in the Pacific, surviving on rainwater and coconuts that floated past. The men encountered difficulties when their engine stalled during a routine trip from Veracruz, outside Panama City, to refuel a fishing boat. “We gave it gas around 5pm, 6pm in the afternoon,” Blas Olivardia, 30, says […]