The U.S. Coast Guard is maintaining communication with a cruise ship that has lost main propulsion and is dead in the water approximately 136 miles north of Merida, Mexico Sunday. The Carnival cruise ship Triumph reported a fire in the aft engine room. Cruise ship personnel isolated and extinguished the engine room fire. No…
Oslo. The high seas that cover almost half the Earth’s surface are a treasure trove with little legal protection from growing threats such as over-fishing and climate change, according to a new international group of politicians. “High levels of pillage are going on,” David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, told Reuters. He will…
IMO member states this week agreed on a proposal to undertake a trial period for port state control sampling and analysis once the International Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC) has entered into force. Acknowledging that there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the methods used to sample ballast water and the real concerns…
Five crew members died in an emergency drill on a cruise ship in the Canary Islands on Sunday, reported Reuters. The cables on a lifeboat snapped during a mock rescue exercise on the Thomson Majesty causing it to plunge 65 feet into the ocean where it fell upside down – killing the five and…