This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. History rarely unfolds like a fable. But consider this: A 16th-century Portuguese trading vessel, carrying a fortune ...

Seven Indians, including two from Tamil Nadu and Kerala each, have been kidnapped by pirates off the West African coast after ...

At least two people have died and 186 others are missing after four boats carrying migrants from Africa capsized overnight ... "These latest shipwrecks are a sobering reminder of the grave dangers ...

A ship the size of a football field ... and MainOne cables off the coast of West Africa caused severe internet blackouts across Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia. Anything that required ...

An inflatable dinghy carrying 56 people left the Tunisian port of Sfax on Monday before getting into trouble, the Italy ...

State-run television in Cyprus is reporting that seven bodies have been recovered and two people have been rescued after a boat carrying migrants sank off the south coast of the island.

Minch. The voyage to escape the heat ended in disaster along a stretch of Michigan now known as Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast that killed 27 and left only one survivor. Its resting place 600 ...

In a complex maritime rescue operation off Gqeberha's coast, NSRI teams successfully saved a Filipino crewman who had fallen ...

Family members appeal to Union government for rescue of seven Indian seafarers kidnapped by pirates off West Africa.