The current shipping crisis in the Red Sea, precipitated by Houthi drone and missile attacks, has stopped the final disposal of the decrepit FSO Safer, a floating oil storage and offloading vessel, moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah.
Fortunately, the over one million barrels of oil once stored in the ship, which would have been an ecological disaster if spilled, had been transferred to another tanker by the United Nations by August of 2023, only a few months before the outbreak of the current hostilities.
The final part of the clean-up — the removal of the 48-year-old decaying tanker to be scrapped has had to be put on hold due to the increased risk and resulting increased costs of operating in the region.
Gordon Blackmore was out hunting seabirds early in the morning on 
On Saturday, the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s
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Last Saturday, January 20, a series of massive storm-driven waves struck the island of Roi-Namur in the Marshall Islands causing considerable flooding and damage to the 
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In 1986, a massive iceberg, more than three times larger than New York City, calved off West Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and immediately grounded on the floor of the Weddell Sea, where it remained stuck for almost four decades.
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A new analysis has concluded that a large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound was likely the site of a pre-Viking ship burial. What is fascinating is that the site was excavated three times during the late 18th century and no one found the ship within the mound. 
Houthi anti-ship missiles struck two more commercial ships in the Red Sea off Yemen in the last two days. There were no reports of injuries on either ship.
An updated repost — a look back at the twin miracles on the Hudson from fifteen years ago today. On January 15, 2009,