In the teeth of a ferocious North Pacific storm, a U.S. Navy destroyer can feel less like a warship and more like a steel cork, heaving and shuddering as walls of water crash over the bow. Footage of ...

Satellites have confirmed what mariners long suspected but could never fully prove: the open Pacific can spawn waves as tall ...

The Pacific during the Second World War was the largest battlefield in history, yet all but a tiny fraction of it was water.

Western economies have become dependent on data and energy flow along the seafloor; Russia and China are weaponizing that ...

Russia’s troops now control the only land link between the Baltic states and the rest of NATO territory. Around it, they ...

When he was 12 the author shot a limit of ring-necks when he was hunting for wigeon. It wasn’t the last time divers turned a slow day of duck hunting into a memorable one. The season might be over, ...

The story of Captain Ashton Bodden who was born in Cayman Brac during World War II and went on to have a long career at sea.

Sanctions on North Korea have neither halted its nuclear program nor produced stability, while imposing heavy costs on ...

A cruise ship was trapped in thick sea ice on Saturday while sailing near Antarctica. The Scenic Eclipse II became stuck while sailing through the Ross Sea. It requested assistance after it was unable ...

Even with a sturdy ship and the help of satellite images, negotiating the frozen ocean requires a dose of humility before nature’s might.

LONDON (AP) — A Russian captain of a cargo ship was found guilty Monday of gross negligence manslaughter after his vessel crashed into a U.S. oil tanker in the North Sea last year, killing one crew ...