David “Cowboy” Weiss was a wild-hearted, cocky and freshly minted cadet from Traverse City’s new Great Lakes Maritime Academy. His first assignment: To board the Edmund Fitzgerald. One sailor’s story ...

From sudden storms and engine fires to mysterious disappearances and full-blown mutinies, these true cruise ship disasters reveal just how quickly paradise at sea can turn into a ... off the coast of ...

Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over diving her remains are lifted.

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...

Jules Verne’s 1870 novel *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea* features the state-of-the-art submarine Nautilus. Built by ...

Jules Verne’s 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' gave science fiction its soul, turning curiosity into courage and ...

As a literary device, ghosts are often used as messengers, and lend themselves well to plays or films, where their presence can be depicted in a way that communicates to the audience that not everyone ...

Melissa Barrera is taking on killer whales alongside John Travolta in her next horror film, Black Tides. Read on for more ...

The 1975 mutiny that inspired The Hunt for Red October had a radically different motive than the fiction it spawned. -The real-life figure was Valery Sablin, a Soviet naval political officer and ...

From Sandy Island to Bermeja, why are we obsessed with places that don't exist, and how do they shape explorations? Read more ...

The cargo aircraft that skidded off a Hong Kong airport runway is seen in the sea. (AP) The cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong runway and collided with a security patrol car. (AP) Auto news: Can ...