A dive team has identified a shipwreck off the coast of Nantucket as a World War I-era fishing boat that sank nearly 100 years ago with more than 20 men aboard. The ST Seiner was last seen in January 1929, according to a news release from the Atlantic Wreck Salvage, a company that searches for…
Holly Andrzejewski hadn’t yet welcomed her and her family’s first guests to the Atlantic Inn on Hatteras Island when she had to start rescheduling them — as Hurricane Erin neared North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Tuesday and threatened to whip up wild waves and tropical force winds. Andrzejewski and her husband purchased the bed-and-breakfast, known…
MIAMI (AP) — A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week. It reintensified to a Category 4 storm with 130 mph (215 kph) maximum sustained winds late Sunday as its outer bands lashed the Virgin…
An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches, researchers said in a newly published paper. The deep-sea trenches, also called Hadal trenches, are “some of the Earth’s least explored and understood environments,” the researchers wrote. In these extreme environments, the crushing pressure, scant food and lack…
Over 140 passengers and crew members aboard a Royal Caribbean International ship have been sickened by an unidentified illness, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program said Wednesday. The ship, the Navigator of the Seas, was on a week-long, round-trip cruise that departed from Los Angeles on July 4. The ship made…
A 12-year-old girl was airlifted from South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island after she was bitten by a shark, authorities said. The girl was bitten in the waters off Hilton Head’s Sea Pines on Tuesday, authorities said. Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue said in a statement she had sustained “a leg injury consistent with lacerations typically…