Read MIN’s collection of weird and wonderful marine news from around the world.
Includes yachts stuck on bridges (under and next to), marinas flooding, boats taken for joy rides, houses floated on boats, floating saunas rescuing car owners, concorde hitching a ride on a barge and so many more.
Explore MIN’s collection of joyful tales that celebrate the indomitable spirit of anyone who takes to the water. . . . in whatever guise.
And of course, the unmissable tale of the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship Götheborg of Sweden, rescuing passengers aboard a small sailing boat that was drifting after losing its rudder.
Tender specialist Williams Jet Tenders’ SportJet 250 will star on the silver screen in the upcoming blockbuster film Argylle. The SportJet 520 is used in a riveting chase scene along the iconic River Thames in the spy thriller film. A collaboration between Apple Original Films and MARV, Argylle features a stellar cast, including Henry Cavill, […]
“It was a memorable working day,” says the skipper of a floating sauna after rescuing the occupants of a Tesla which’d been driven into a fjord. As the car sunk in the chilly water, the occupants clambered onto its roof until the sauna came by and offered them refuge. “It was surreal, not exactly what […]
The Royal Navy is investigating after one of its minesweepers collided with another in Bahrain, when a wiring error inadvertently sent the vessel into reverse. Military sources have confirmed that faulty rewiring was to blame for the embarrassing gaffe, which involved the minehunter HMS Chiddingfold moving backwards and crashing into HMS Bangor, which was lying […]
A GoFundMe page has been launched for Magnus Reslow, 64, a Swedish single-handed sailor who was attacked by pirates off the coast of Colombia, before fighting them off with a hammer and emergency flares. Reslow (pictured above) is a low-budget sailor who has been living on boats for 30 years, sailing worldwide using a school […]
A British couple are facing a bill of up to £200,000, after partying sailors set their 100-year-old wooden boat on fire by landing flares on the deck. Police in Spain arrested three Ukranian merchant sailors on New Year’s Day after the classic sailing vessel Maori caught fire on the Costa Blanca in Alicante. The trio, […]
The crew of a cruise ship has successfully rescued five fishermen who were seen in difficulty off the Indian coast on Christmas Day. The alarm was raised by passengers, who had been relaxing aboard their balcony on the Italian-flagged cruise liner Costa Serena when they saw a group of people wearing lifejackets around a mile away. […]
It’s been a year of numbers. Orca have sunk two boats, memberships to orca Facebook groups have rocketed past 50k, and the Cruising Association has seen a massive drop off in incidents being reported to its database (launched in June 2022) . . . even though the number of incidents doubled at the start of […]
The 49m Benetti superyacht Tumberry C has run aground near Carabuxeira beach, Sanxenxo, in northwest Spain. Photos taken at Sanxenxo Marina in the province of Pontevedra, Spain, on Sunday (17 December), show the vessel sinking at the bow. According to reports on social media, the vessel had suffered a leak in the engine room. After […]
Footage captured by passersby shows the moment a boat full of football fans became wedged under London’s Hammersmith Bridge as it attempted to pass beneath it. The small ferry was taking West Ham fans to a match against Fulham when it struck Hammersmith Bridge on Sunday 10 December 2023. A boat full of West Ham […]
A 140-metre-plus Lürssen superyacht currently under construction has crashed through the doors of the dry docks at the German boatbuilder’s facility in Bremen. Images published by Nord-West Media TV show the superyacht breaching the gate of the yard’s 170-metre dry dock on Thursday (7 December), in an apparent failed attempt to leave the shed. Today […]
A group of tourists took an unplanned dip in the chilly waters of a Venice canal when their gondola capsized after they refused to sit down and stop taking selfies. The incident occurred on Sunday (3 December 2023) close to St Mark’s Square as the gondola was passing under a bridge at Rio de la […]