Myrtle Beach is easiest to enjoy when you plan for the coast, not only for the hotel When people search for Myrtle Beach, they often see photographs of broad […]

The moment a vessel is born Few scenes in the maritime world are as dramatic as a newly built ship entering the water for the first time. A vessel that […]

Modern ports are associated with container cranes, automated terminals, ship-to-shore gantries, harbour tugs and enormous vessels carrying thousands of containers. The earliest ports looked very different. A harbour might consist […]

Canada has the longest coastline of any country on Earth—but there is no single, perfectly exact length for it or any other coast. Coastlines twist around bays, islands, fjords, estuaries […]

A missile impact creates the dramatic moment, but blast alone does not necessarily sink a ship. A vessel goes down when flooding, loss of stability, structural damage or a combination […]

After the car carrier Baltic Ace sank in the North Sea in December 2012, its wreck threatened shipping and the marine environment. This article explains how salvors removed fuel, cut […]

The large rounded structure projecting from the front of many ships is not a bumper. It is a carefully designed hydrodynamic device called a bulbous bow. As a ship moves, […]

A ship’s lifeboat is a self-contained survival craft designed to carry people away from a vessel during an emergency. This guide explains its controls, davit-launching arrangement, release system, emergency rations […]

An icebreaker does not normally cut through sea ice like a knife. Instead, its bow rises onto the ice, transfers part of the ship’s weight onto the frozen surface and […]

Global trade does not spread evenly across the ocean. Ships concentrate along routes shaped by geography, cargo demand, port networks, weather, fuel cost and international law. Where those routes narrow […]