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2 wounded by propeller when sailboat and motorboat collide off Massachusetts

Two people were wounded by a boat propeller after a motorboat and a sailboat collided off the coast of Massachusetts Friday afternoon, officials said. The boats crashed around 12:30 p.m....

Last known intact US slave ship is too ‘broken’ and should stay underwater, report recommends

The ship’s remains stayed, unidentified in the brackish Mobile River until 2019.

'Beloved' Texas family feared dead after boat capsizes in frigid Alaska waters: 'Hard to believe that this could be real'

“I can vouch for many that they were a wonderful, caring, and loving family that deserves to be brought home.”

3 dead -- including two 4-year-old boys -- after 25-foot pontoon boat capsizes on Lake Powell in northern Arizona

A woman and two children have died and two others were hospitalized after a pontoon boat capsized on Lake Powell in northern Arizona, authorities said Sunday.

Fisherman whose boat was capsized by breaching whale speaks out: 'Was in fight or flight mode'

Ironically, Kenney's family asked him about the likelihood of something like this happening prior to the incident. 

Theories emerge as to how thrill-seeking couple in homemade yacht died and washed ashore in a life raft

Earlier this month, the bodies of Brett Clibbery, 70, and Sarah Justine Packwood, 54, were found on a life raft washed up on Sable Island, Nova Scotia.

Bodies of thrill-seeking couple mysteriously found in life raft after duo set sail on cross-ocean voyage in yacht

The bodies of Brett Clibbery and Sarah Justine Packwood were found in a life raft on Sable Island south of Novia Scotia after they set sail toward Portugal.

American on Bahamas vacation loses limb during grisly shark attack as arm 'flies out' of beast's mouth

A woman was immersed in the awe of a reef teeming with life when she slammed into "something" during her snorkeling venture.

Teen heroically jumps from jet ski onto runaway boat to stop vessel after captain was knocked overboard

“They were calling me a hero, and all that, but I wouldn’t say I’m a hero.”

Coast Guard rescues five boaters clinging to overturned vessel in harrowing drama 11 miles off Fla.

The watery drama played out around 10:15 a.m., when the Coast Guard Jacksonville Sector got a 911 call from the local sheriff's office about an overturned vessel with five people...

New mom drowns, brother-in-law arrested for boating while drunk after tragic July 4th accident

Jerri MacMeekin had welcomed a "rainbow baby" daughter just seven months ago.

45-foot 'Ghost ship' abandoned during Gulf of Mexico rescue washes up on Fla. beach almost 20 days later

“We called it the ‘ghost ship.’ It quickly became known as the ‘ghost ship’ across Pensacola beach,” 35-year-old Pensacola resident Allie Garrett told NBC.

Wild video shows seaplane crashing into boat, leaving two hospitalized

The caught-on-camera horror unfolded in the middle of Vancouver's Coal Harbour on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

Killer whales may be crashing into boats for fun, study reveals: Orcas 'have time on their hands'

“The sea is a very boring place for an animal,” researcher Renaud de Stephanis, president of Spain's Conservación, Información y Estudio sobre Cetáceos, said.

Passenger dead after jumping off the world's largest cruise ship

A passenger has died after jumping from the world's largest cruise ship on the first night of his week-long voyage, officials said.

Cruise ship captain detained after Danube crash kills 2, leaves 5 missing

A Czech national, the captain was on the Swiss-based cruise ship Saturday night when it struck a motorboat that was carrying eight people late Saturday.  

Boater, 78, suspected of killing teen ballerina in hit-and-run calmly docks vessel after crash, video shows

Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 78, was seen leaving his Coral Gables home on May 11 on his 42-foot Boston Whaler a little after 3 p.m., according to video obtained by NBC6.

How to stay safe this summer when drinking alcohol at the beach

As the weather warms and the days lengthen, many among us head to the nearest body of water — and reach for the booze when we get there.

Body found at Grand Canyon ID'd as man who went missing with dog on homemade raft

The National Park Service said a body that washed up on the banks of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is an Arizona man who disappeared on a homemade...