Friends and family have been paying tribute to a Fife fishermen lost off the Dorset coast.
John Bowman's family said they were "devastated" by the news and colleagues praised him as a "great entrepreneur".
Two submarine wrecks, believed to be uncharted WWI German U-boats, have been discovered by chance off Orkney.
A team working on a Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) tug made the find during a routine sonar survey.
A man who escaped from a fireball on board his £100,000 motor boat said he remembered was a "massive explosion".
John Maynard was nearly killed when his craft was destroyed in the blaze at Brighton Marina on 5 November.
Scientists in Indonesia are preparing to auction tens of thousands of artefacts salvaged from a sunken ship off the coast of Java.
The items, which are believed to be more than 1,000 years old, include ceramics, tombstones and swords.
A Roman ship, wrecked off the coast of Spain in the 1st Century AD, has been dazzling archaeologists with the array of historical treasures on board.
Thirty metres (100ft) long and holding 400 tonnes, it is the largest Roman ship found in the Mediterranean.
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Narrowboat owners are mounting a blockade on a Cheshire canal in protest at a hike in their mooring fees.
Bridgewater Canal owner Peel Holdings is introducing new charges which could see some owners' fees more than double.
About 50 firefighters were needed to tackle a blaze on two privately-owned boats on the East Sussex coast.
The crews were called to Brighton marina on Sunday evening and took almost three hours to control the fire, with help from three lifeboats.
There are new plans to expand Pwllheli marina 16 months after councillors turned down a £3.8m proposal.
Opponents feared the plans to almost double the 400-berth marina could dilute the area's language and culture.
Ten Somalis have been sentenced to seven years in jail for piracy and hijacking by a Kenyan court.
The men were arrested earlier this year by the US Navy which responded to a reported hijack off the Somali coast.
An oil platform carrying 75 people has briefly drifted out of control in the North Sea, Norwegian media reports say.
The boat pulling the platform developed technical difficulties due to the bad weather, an official told AFP.
A rescue is under way off the Summer Isles, near Ullapool, after a boat ran aground on rocks in stormy weather.
The Harvest Caroline - a fish farm supply vessel - dragged its anchors after suffering engine failure.
A search is under way in the North Sea for a missing Fife fishing boat with four crew on board.
The alarm was raised when staff at RAF Kinloss picked up a distress call at 2200 BST on Thursday from the Meridian, which is registered in Kirkcaldy.
A Bristol man has been rescued after falling overboard in stormy seas from his yacht, Rash, 15 miles off the coast of Spain.
Coastguards in Falmouth, Cornwall, received the distress call in the early hours of Thursday marking the vessel off the Portuguese coast.
Almost half of the yachts in a solo round-the-world race have returned to port just over 24 hours into the contest, because of bad weather.
The Velux 5 Oceans began with eight skippers on Sunday from Bilbao, Spain, but three yachts are heading back to Gijon in the north of the country.
Voters in Panama have overwhelmingly approved an ambitious project to expand the country's famous shipping canal.
In a nationwide referendum, people voted by a margin of four to one to back the $5.2bn plan, which involves building a new channel and new locks.
Some of the world's best windsurfers have arrived on the Hebridean island of Tiree for a week of adrenalin-filled competition.
The Tiree Wave Classic has become an annual fixture for sailors more used to the tropical climes of Hawaii.
Sunseeker International announces the launch of their exciting new Superhawk 43. With an unrivalled reputation for the design and production of stylish high performance sport cruisers Sunseeker have once again developed a boat to capture the imagination of the most discerning customers.
Controversial plans to scrap former US naval vessels at a Teesside yard have been thrown out by councillors.
Able UK, which had won a contract to dismantle up to 13 so-called ghost ships at its facility in Graythorp, Hartlepool, said it would appeal.
Nigel Morrison and Richard Hawes, partners in Grant Thornton UK LLP, have been appointed joint Administrators of The Challenge Business International Limited ( the Company or Challenge ), a company established by Sir Chay Blyth to organise the Global
Challenge round-the-world yacht race.
A company that wants to scrap former US naval vessels on Teesside, is likely to know whether it can go ahead with the controversial project within days.
Able UK wants to dismantle up to 13 so-called ghost ships at its facility in Graythorp, Hartlepool.
The smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic has once again returned to Cornwall, 13 years to the day after she sailed into the record books.
The 5ft 4in Father's Day was transported to Falmouth from Florida, accompanied by her record-breaking captain, Hugo Vihlen.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has increased its target for new orders this year to a record $12bn (£6.4bn).
The world's second-largest shipbuilder said it was benefiting from increased demand for tanker ships and rigs to handle oil and liquefied natural gas.
Three men had to be rescued from their yacht after it hit rocks and ended up on its side in rough seas off Devon in the early hours of Wednesday.
The inshore lifeboat was launched to help the 40ft yacht, Ambition.
The owner of a yacht found unmanned with the engine running off the coast of Mullion in Cornwall has been identified by police.
The "Grey Seal" was bought recently by 45-year-old David Taylor, who has not been seen since Friday.
Two California beachfront communities are facing a legal battle to claim the coveted title of "Surf City USA".
The Los Angeles suburb of Huntington Beach has trademarked the famous name, and ordered Santa Cruz, to the south of San Francisco, to stop using the title.
One of the Royal Navy's longest-serving submarines sailed into British naval history after 33 years of service.
HMS Sovereign flew her decommissioning pennant as she sailed from her base near Helensburgh for the last time.
Scottish lifeboat crews had their second busiest summer on record this year, according to fresh figures. There were 445 RNLI launches in June, July and August - a 10% increase on the summer of 2005.
A man has died after an incident involving three water bikes off the Llyn Peninsula in Gwynedd.
The Abersoch inshore lifeboat pulled the unconscious rider from the sea after he came off his craft at Porth Ceiriad near Abersoch.
A British couple wanted for stealing a yacht in Cornwall may have been killed by pirates off the west African coast.
The bodies of Peter Clarke, 49, and his partner Sharon Arthurs-Chegini, 46, are reported to have been found a boat drifting off the coast of Senegal.
A 61-year-old P&O employee has been arrested over the deaths of three sailors and the disappearance of their yacht in the English Channel.
Ouzo had left Bembridge, Isle of Wight, for Dartmouth, Devon, on 20 August.
A teenage girl had to be airlifted from a training sailing ship off Plymouth.
A rescue helicopter from RNAS Culdrose was called to the Tall Ships Youth Trust vessel Prince William which was about 15 miles (24km) offshore.
Two crew members of an Egyptian dredger were killed and two were missing feared drowned when it sank in the Suez canal.
The major international waterway, which averages 7% of world shipping traffic, was closed briefly while ships were diverted to a second channel.
Authorities on the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean say a ship with 76 people on board has sunk north-west of Madagascar.
French rescue teams have found 43 survivors from the vessel, the Comoros-flagged Ali Mubarak, but 33 are still missing.
If British manufacturing really is dying, then the industry is making one of its last stands in Barrow.
The shipbuilding town on the isolated Furness peninsula in south-west Cumbria is home to 3,200 steelworkers, designers, engineers, fitters, electricians and other skilled workers building some of the Royal Navy's most secretive and deadly weapons.
UN officials have drawn up an action plan to tackle a huge oil spill along the Lebanese and Syrian coastline. Experts estimate that the initial clear-up will cost 50m euros (£34m), with more funds required next year. The plan calls for immediate aerial surveys to assess the extent of the damage and a workforce of 300 people to tackle the worst-affected sites.
Japanese tanker travelling from the Middle East to Japan spilled about 4,500 tonnes of crude oil in the Indian Ocean, according to its operator.
The spill happened around 290 miles (470 km) off India's Great Nicobar Island when the tanker went to assist another vessel.
A controversial asbestos-lined former ocean liner, The Blue Lady, has docked in the western Indian port of Alang in Gujarat State to be scrapped.
Port officer Anil Rathore told Press Trust of India that the ship known in its glory days as the SS France would be broken in a month's time.
A Peterhead fishing boat sank in the North Sea after her nets snagged on mounds of clay created by a plough making way for oil pipelines.
The Harvest Hope's seven crew escaped into a life raft before being picked up by another boat in August last year.
A man who died when he was swept overboard a yacht in "extreme" North Sea conditions has been named.
Adrian Ernest Piggford, 67, of Cheapside, Waltham, was returning from a trip to Holland with three other men when they hit rough seas.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has made a special captain’s chair for HMS Illustrious – the flagship of the Royal Navy. It was officially presented by Rolls-Royce chairman, Ian Robertson, and a group of Rolls-Royce staff to Captain Bob Cooling and his crew in Portsmouth on 23rd March, as part of the ship’s refurbishment.
Lebanon's coastline could take up to 10 years to recover from a massive oil spill, the nation's environment minister has said.
Yacoub Sarraf said it was impossible to tackle the problem while the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel continued.
A woman died after she was swept into the sea off North Tyneside while preparing for a dive.
She was with two other women, who were also swept from St Mary's Island at Whitley Bay on Wednesday afternoon, but who managed to swim back to land.
Thousands of holidaymakers in the Mediterranean have been stung by jellyfish as huge swarms of the creatures invade coastal waters.
Some Spanish beaches have been closed, but Sicily and North Africa are also reported to be badly affected.
A South Korean fishing boat with 25 crew members seized by pirates off Somalia in April has arrived in Kenya.
The Dongwon-ho 628 was released after the alleged payment of a ransom of several hundred thousand dollars.
Experts appointed by an Indian court have cleared the entry of a French ocean liner into a ship-breaking yard, a senior official said.
The Blue Lady, owned by an Indian firm, can now be towed to the world's largest ship-breaking yard in Alang in the state of Gujarat and dismantled.
The UK "covered itself in glory" in the Royal Navy's evacuation of people from Lebanon, the chief of one of the ships involved in the mission has said.
Commanding officer of HMS Illustrious Commodore Bob Cooling said no other nation could have executed the task more quickly or professionally.
A blind woman has celebrated her 75th birthday by taking the helm of an Irish Sea passenger ferry for part of its crossing from Wales to Ireland.
Blodwyn Phillips has completed a series of fund-raising challenges for charity Guide Dogs.
A total of three companies have been invited to tender for the Gourock and Dunoon ferry service, the transport minister has said.
Tavish Scott said Caledonian MacBrayne, V Ships and Western Ferries should submit their ideas for taking over the route.
The Queen's 80th birthday cruise around Scotland's Western Isles has come to an end in Stornoway.
Members of the Royal Family set off from Islay on the Hebridean Princess, a converted car ferry, last Friday.
Two fishermen have died after getting into difficulty in the sea off the south west coast of Scotland.
The alarm was raised on Sunday at 1710 BST by a young boy who rang the coastguard to say his father and uncle were in the water.
The Polish navy says it is almost certain that it has located the wreck of Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin. A Polish firm searching for oil first detected the wreck in the Baltic Sea, 55km (34 miles) offshore.
Giant ocean sunfish have been spotted off the Cornish coast in a survey of marine life.
Nineteen sunfish, generally thought to be a warm-water species, were spotted off the south-western tip of Cornwall.
A harbourmaster has warned that a major tragic accident in Welsh waters is inevitable without new laws for private leisure boats.
Tony Mead from Conwy says people going out on the water do not have "a sufficient competency level" and compulsory testing is needed.
A six-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulties in the sea off Barmouth in Gwynedd on Monday.
Callum Andrew Jones, from Wrexham, was pulled from the water and airlifted to hospital, North Wales Police confirmed.
A unique solar-powered boat introduced as part of efforts to improve access to new facilities on an island in Loch Lomond has been officially named.
The Bàta Grèine - boat of the sun - will ferry passengers to the remote island of Inchcailloch.
The crew of a cargo vessel listing virtually "on its side" off the coast of Alaska have begun to abandon ship, Coast Guard officials have said.
The 654ft (196m) Singapore-flagged Cougar Ace is listing at an 80-degree angle. US Coast Guard helicopters have arrived to pick up the 22 crew.
An unfinished ship which was being built on the Tyne has arrived on Clydeside to be completed.
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Vessel Lyme Bay should have been finished at the Swan Hunter yard in Newcastle.
Thousands of sailors will be heading for Cowes this summer for a week of challenging racing in the waters of the Solent. The annual regatta is extra special this year, as it celebrates its 180th anniversary
Thousands of British nationals are embarking onto ships as they flee from war-torn Lebanon.
Up to 3,000 British evacuees are expected to be taken from Beirut, on to HMS Bulwark and then on to Cyprus.
Plans are being drawn up to build a £3.3m working replica of the boat that took Charles Darwin around the world at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire.
Fundraising for the project, which would mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth in 2009, is under way.
A man has died after playing with his children in water near Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast.
Officials said the man, believed to be 50 and from Sheffield, was with two children near Ingoldmells Point when they got into difficulty.
A shuttle boat powered entirely by the sun is to be launched on the Serpentine lake in London's Hyde Park.
The 14.5m (48ft) Solarshuttle, thought to be the biggest of its kind in the UK, will carry 42 passengers between the north and south of the water.
BAE Systems' Clydeside shipyards have won a major contract to work on two new frigates for the Malaysian navy.
The work should help sustain hundreds of engineering and manufacturing jobs at its Scotstoun and Govan shipyards.
The Panamanian congress has formally approved a $5bn plan to widen the Panama Canal, its biggest expansion since it opened in 1914.
Some modern ships are now too wide to go through the canal, and those ships that can pass have to queue for hours.
Six Royal Navy vessels have been dispatched to Lebanon, where they may be called into action to rescue stranded Britons. What are their capabilities?
A lifeboat crew were called out to reach a stolen fishing boat which was in trouble off the Anglesey coast.
Coastguards received a distress call and the lifeboat found the £40,000 vessel a mile off Cemaes. The boat went missing from Holyhead late on Saturday.
A clean-up operation has begun on the SS Nomadic before it is unveiled to the public on Monday.
The ship, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, will dock at the Odyssey in Belfast at about 1830 BST.
Forty-eight university students from around the world have taken part in an 800-mile sailing adventure aimed at promoting international understanding.
Funded by the HSBC Education Trust, they took the Prince William, a 60-metre brig, from Brixham, in Devon, to London, via France and Belgium.
A sell-out crowd of 20,000 is due on the Lleyn peninsula in north Wales this weekend for the Wakestock festival.
The event is in its sixth year and features wakeboarding - a version of snowboarding on water - along with a music festival.
Three adults and a child have been rescued from a fire onboard a motor cruiser on Upper Lough Erne in County Fermanagh.
It happened at Carrybridge just after 2000 BST on Wednesday.
Amid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story.
The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrap yard, is ready to come home.
The United Nations is being asked to step in to protect a barrier reef which lies just off Belize in Central America. Island dwellers fear its erosion could endanger their homes and livelihoods if action is not taken soon.
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What is believed to be the biggest ever festival of traditional boats in Scotland is getting under way on the Banffshire coast on Friday.
The event in Portsoy is expected to attract more than 16,000 visitors.
An armoured vehicle originally built during World War II is to become a permanent tourism feature in Devon.
The amphibious carrier, known as a Dukw (or Duck), has been converted to take tourists around Plymouth Sound.
Plans for wave energy machines off the north Cornwall coast have created a split in the surfing community.
Some surfers are concerned that the machines will take energy from the waves and reduce wave heights.
Firefighters used new specialist rescue equipment to lift an injured man from a boat at a Flintshire dock.
Crews from Rhyl and Holywell were called to Mostyn Docks at 2240 BST on Monday after paramedics failed to reach the casualty on board, because of the low tide.
The ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July.
The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January.
Operators of a cruise liner hit by a major outbreak of a sickness bug twice in a month have vowed to carry out even more stringent deep cleaning measures.
The Black Prince returned to dock in Leith early on Wednesday after about 100 passengers fell ill.
Actors Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have attended the European premiere of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel in London.
Hundreds of fans, who braved sweltering temperatures in London's Leicester Square, were rewarded with an hour-long walkabout by the film's stars.
A Royal Navy squadron of minehunters is to be based within the HM Naval Base on the Clyde.
Eight Sandown Class ships will be based at Faslane and will display a Lion Rampant on their funnels in honour of their new Scottish home.
Pirates have attacked two UN-chartered ships in the Malacca Strait, a maritime watchdog has said.
Both ships were sailing from Sumatra to Aceh when they were attacked, said Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau's piracy centre in Malaysia.
A federal judge in California has ordered the US Navy to temporarily stop using sonar equipment because it might harm whales and other sea mammals.
Environmentalists applied for the restraining order to cover a Pacific warfare exercise off Hawaii's coast.
A Devon property developer has been told to remove his 61m trimaran from its construction site on Teignmouth seafront.
Simon Chalk's 12-month planning permission to build the £1.3m Spirit of Teignmouth at The Den has run out.
A Cornish lifeboat has been called out to help a yacht that broke down close to the county's coast.
A girl has been airlifted from a cross-channel ferry after she almost severed her fingers in an accident onboard the vessel.
Coastguards lifted the girl off the Brittany Ferries service, which was five miles out of Poole Harbour, Dorset, en route to Cherbourg, France.
Belfast's seafaring links are being celebrated with the inaugural Maritime Festival which takes place over Saturday and Sunday - landlubbers also can enjoy activities such as a continental market and fireworks.
A tsunami warning system covering the Indian Ocean region is now "up and running", Unesco has said.
The UN organisation, which has overseen the project, says the whole region can now receive and distribute warnings of possible tsunamis.
Ambitious plans for a £100m Titanic tourist project in Belfast's docklands area have been unveiled.
The project includes a full-scale model of the liner, exhibition galleries and a hotel and conference centre.
The last American survivor of the Titanic wreck has died in the state of Massachusetts aged 99.
Lillian Gertrud Asplund was five when the ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.
Zoologists have developed a plan to save the Yangtze River dolphin, probably the world's most endangered mammal, from extinction.
Thousands of people will be crowding the banks of the Thames over the next five days as this year's Henley Royal Regatta gets under way.
The rowing event, which attracts top competitors from around the world, is held over a stretch of the River Thames on the Oxfordshire/Berkshire border.
A 16-year-old boy has caught a giant lobster during a fishing competition off the Kent coast.
The 11lb 3oz (5kg) crustacean was netted off the coast of Dover by Louie Smith from Deal and experts believe it could be up to 50 years old.
Not one of the six defendants was in court as the trial in Egypt opened over the February 3 sinking of Al-Salam 98, which went down with the loss of some 1,000 lives, a legal source said.
Two drunken campers had to be rescued from the sea after going for an early morning swim at Gower on Saturday.
One of the men in their mid 20s managed to raise the alarm after the other fell unconscious at Three Cliffs Bay.
Anti-pollution teams are trying to clean up a five-mile (8km) oil slick which leaked into the Menai Strait from a disused factory nearby.
The slick was spotted on Sunday by sailors in the Menai Strait which separates Anglesey from the mainland.
The Avondale dockyard lies on the banks of the Mississippi river close to New Orleans. It is a huge facility with towering cranes and half built hulls that dwarf the thousands who work here.
Ships have been built at the yard for decades, but the LPD 21, a billion-dollar warship, is different.
Tributes have been paid to a well-known businessman who died after falling into the sea when he was struck on the head by the sail boom of his boat.
Mark Campbell was knocked unconscious off the harbour breakwater at Holyhead on Anglesey at 2015 BST on Wednesday.
Italian scientists have discovered a huge underwater volcano 40km (25 miles) off the southern coast of Sicily.
The base of the volcano - named after the Greek philosopher Empedocles - covers an area larger than Rome.
Rescuers have issued warnings about the dangers of the sea after a spate of incidents on the Welsh coastline.
On Saturday Prestatyn lifeguards rescued an adult, a child, and then two teenagers, and a yachtsman died after falling overboard off Pembrokeshire.
A Royal Navy aircraft carrier has rescued two fishermen after their boat got into trouble off the coast of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean.
Crew members from HMS Illustrious boarded the stricken fishing vessel near the Yemeni island of Abd Al Kuri, 60 miles (97km) from Somalia.
A yachtsman has died after falling into the sea when he was hit by the sail boom on his boat.
The man was knocked unconscious into the water off the harbour breakwater at Holyhead on Anglesey.
A gripping, pacy remake of Irwin Allen's 1972 classic disaster movie, Poseidon follows the adventures of a gang of passengers on board a luxury cruise ship capsized by a freak tsunami. Led by professional gambler Josh Lucas, our ragtag band of heroes must fight their way to freedom (or in some cases, horrible death) through lakes of fire, corridors of corpses and that ever-reliable disaster movie standby, the ventilation shaft. Essentially, it's Titanic without all the dull bits.
The International Whaling Commission's annual meeting has ended with talk of compromise, despite a key victory for pro-whaling nations. Japan says some anti-whaling nations are softening their stance.
And the anti-whaling US is talking of working with whaling nations to make the practice more sustainable.
The survival of a Pembrokeshire fisherman who swam almost four miles (6.4km) after his boat sunk is an "incredible story", coastguards say.
Douglas Hook, 31, was found suffering from hypothermia on Pendine Sands in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A diver who got into difficulties off the north Wales coast is being treated in hospital suffering from the bends.
The man was airlifted from the water at Bull Bay, Anglesey, shortly before 1130 BST on Saturday.
A search for a fisherman missing after a trawler sank off the west Wales coast has been called off.
One of the two crew members aboard the Pamela S, was found alive on a beach at 0245 BST on Sunday after spending about 11 hours in the sea.
Pro-whaling nations have won their first vote towards the resumption of commercial whaling for 20 years.
The International Whaling Commission meeting backed a resolution calling for the eventual return of commercial whaling by a majority of just one vote.
Hopes of finding three Britons and an American missing off the coast of Nova Scotia are fading after a rescue beacon was recovered.
The device is thought to belong to the yacht of Britons Richard White, 34, Jacek Bielecki, 56, his son Jack, 19, and US citizen Molly Finn, 21.
Coastguards are searching for three Britons and an American missing off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
The yacht of Britons Richard White, 34, Jacek Bielecki, 56, his son Jack, 19, and US citizen Molly Finn, 21, was caught in high winds on Thursday.
Japan is to table its proposal for a move towards a return to commercial whaling on day two of the International Whaling Commission annual meeting.
It says future whaling would be sustainable, with safeguards including independent observers and set quotas.
US President George W Bush has designated a swathe of Hawaiian islands as a US national monument, making them the world's largest marine sanctuary.
He signed a law on Thursday which will give the northwestern Hawaiian Islands the highest protected status in US law.
The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission begins on Friday on the Caribbean island of St Kitts.
Russia is to build the world's first floating nuclear plant, designed to provide power for remote areas.
Under a contract signed on Wednesday, the plant will be built at an Arctic site where atomic submarines are made.
The world's largest cruise ship has set sail from Miami on her first Caribbean cruise carrying regular passengers.
The 160,000-ton Freedom of the Seas has knocked the liner Queen Mary 2 from the top of the list of the world's biggest cruise ships in terms of volume.
A sailing academy where part of the 2012 Olympics is being held is to get a multi-million pound upgrade.
Changes to the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy will turn it from a "top class setting into a world class training and competition venue".
A father-of-three who was thrown into the sea in mid Wales when his inflatable dinghy overturned has died. Terry Woodward, 43, from Shropshire, was in the dinghy with two of his three children, when it was hit by a strong wave on Sunday near Borth, Ceredigion.
Associated British Ports - which owns 21 ports around the UK - has agreed to be taken over in a £2.5bn deal.
The firm accepted an offer of 810 pence per share from a consortium which includes Goldman Sachs.
A sad day for our whales! - Unfortunately, pro-whaling nations look set to command a majority of the votes when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting begins on Friday.
Thai fishermen have promised to stop catching the endangered giant Mekong catfish to mark the 60th anniversary of their king's accession to the throne.
Nearly 60 fishermen made the pledge at a ceremony in the northern city of Chiang Khong - one of several events to celebrate the King's long reign.
A yachtsman who died after falling overboard off the Pembrokeshire coast has been named by Dyfed-Powys Police.
Lifeboat crews pulled Richard Curtis, 62, unconscious from the sea near Strumble Head on Saturday. He was still attached to his yacht by a lifeline.
Ship-lovers and ecologists are battling to prevent the scrapping of a former French ocean liner in India. We look back at the (slightly surreal) glory days of the SS France.
Sailors on board three racing yachts in the Mini Fastnet race had to be rescued when their vessels became dismasted.
The boats were damaged in 25-knot (29mph) winds about 50 miles (80km) south west of the Isles of Scilly.
The yachts of BAVARIA's new VISION line offer an increased standard equipment compared with the current cruiser line and a new dimension in speed potential by using new hull designs, a ballast ratio of above 35%, and significantly increased sail areas.
Simrad has released a major software upgrade for the popular Simrad SH80 high resolution, high frequency fishery sonar.
The new GLOBIC NCT antifouling from Hempel Paints has been chosen for the 247 foot Mirabella V, the largest single-masted sailing yacht in the world. Using the most advanced technology in the field of antifouling, GLOBIC NCT is a high-performance antifouling that is both self-polishing and self-smoothing, based on the ground breaking use of patented nanocapsule technology. Mircofibre technology is also used which allows for more rapid hardening as well as improved cohesive strength.
Plans to expand the size of a Gwynedd marina are expected to be put forward next month.
The Pwllheli Marina Traders Association has announced its planning application for 1,000 berths.
An English warship thought to have sunk in the Great Storm of 1703 is to be given protected status, Culture Minister David Lammy has announced.
The wreck, lying in Pevensey Bay, off the East Sussex coast, is believed to be that of the 70-gun Resolution.
Five hundred UK holidaymakers have been sent home after their cruise ship was detained by the coastguard because of a severe virus "rife" among the 250 crew.
So many had the virus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, the ship would have been unable to cope with any emergency, the coastguard added.
The endangered loggerhead turtle may face a greater threat than previously realised from longline fishing. Researchers found that many turtles spend considerably longer in the open ocean, where longline boats operate, than earlier studies had indicated.
The first solo yachtswoman to circumnavigate the globe the "wrong way" and non-stop has stepped back on UK soil after nearly six months at sea.
Dee Caffari, 33, a former teacher from Gosport, Hampshire, was greeted by her mother and the Princess Royal when she arrived in Ocean Village, Southampton.
People who use Channel Island waters are being reminded there is a navigation warning in place after a buoy was damaged.
The Cardinal buoy, which marks the site of an old shipwreck west of the Minquiers reef, cannot be seen at night by passing boats.
A decommissioned US warship has found a new lease of life on the ocean floor, after being sunk to become the world's largest artificial diving reef.
The USS Oriskany, which served in the Korean and Vietnam wars, was sent to the seabed off the Florida coast in an operation carried out by the US Navy.
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Trilobis 65 is a semi-submerged dwelling environment. Reaching 20 metres in length designed by Giancarlo Zema for habitation by six people at sea. It is ideal for living in bays, atolls and maritime parks. The main aim of the project is to allow anyone to live in a unique environment through a self sufficient, non-polluting dwelling cell in unison with their ocean surroundings.
Trilobis 65 has been designed on four separate levels connected by a spiraling staircase.
The SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships and a vital link to the Titanic story, will return to Belfast in July.
The Northern Ireland Office bought the ship at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January.
A member of staff on board the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship has died after an alleged attack by a colleague.
Cunard, the vessel's owner, said the Filipino man, aged 40, was assaulted by a Filipino crew member, 49, on Friday.
One of Britain's most historic ships could be dismantled because too much money is needed to restore it.
The 140-year-old clipper, The Carrick, has been rotting away on the quayside at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Ayrshire, for 15 years.
Most people by now know about the Titanic, but not so many realise it was just one of three Harland and Wolff ships to sink on their maiden voyage.
The last was the Magdalena which sank in 1949 after hitting rocks off the coast of Brazil.
Top surfers from all over the world have been wowed by conditions thrown up by the freezing Pentland Firth off the Caithness coast.
More than 180 competitors have descended on Thurso's East Beach for the World Qualifying Series' Highland Open, which runs until 2 May.
The world's biggest cruise ship, the "Freedom of the Seas", has drawn a crowd of thousands in Hamburg ahead of its maiden transatlantic voyage.
The Finnish-built vessel - flagship of Royal Caribbean International - will have a thorough check and final polish at Germany's Blohm and Voss shipyard.
A major initiative has been launched to conserve the fragile wildlife of the islands of the Pacific.
It includes a commitment to protect nearly a third of coastal waters and a fifth of the land area of Micronesia.
The next generation of lifeboat is arriving at its new home in Peterhead.
The Tamar is described as the most technologically advanced class of lifeboat ever designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
Coastguards have said on Friday that they will not resume the search for an angler missing off the coast of Anglesey.
A major search for the 50-year-old man was called off on Thursday evening.
Thirteen Britons were among those killed when a cruise ship capsized off Bahrain in the Gulf, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has confirmed.
The Bahrain government said 25 British nationals were among the 150 people on board the two-storey Arabic how.
Britain's latest nuclear submarine - being built in Cumbria - is nearing completion, defence officials say.
HMS Astute, constructed at Barrow, will be the Royal Navy's biggest, most powerful attack submarine ever.
Tiredness and excessive alcohol consumption were "most likely" the main reasons for a boat crash which killed three people last July, a report said.
Almost 130 workers have been taken off a North Sea oil platform after an electrical fire, coastguards said.
Aberdeen Coastguard said it had transferred "non-essential" personnel from the Tern Alpha platform more than 100 miles off Shetland.
A yachtswoman hoping to sail solo non-stop around the world the wrong way has celebrated 100 days at sea.
Dee Caffari, 32, a former Southampton teacher, still has just under 11,000 miles (17,702km) to sail against the prevailing winds and currents.
The Tall Ships Race could return to the Tyne just five years after its last successful visit.
NewcastleGateshead hosted a stage of the event in July 2005 and it attracted 1.5m visitors and brought an extra £50m into the region.
Bangladesh says it has imposed a ban on SS Norway, an asbestos-lined French ocean-liner, from being broken up in its ship-breaking yards. Environment Minister Tariqul Islam made the decision after a meeting with officials and environment groups.
One-third of New Zealand's offshore waters is going to be declared off-limits to bottom-trawlers. The announcement was made in Wellington at the end of a fisheries conference attended by delegates from 20 nations.
A yachting couple were rescued after getting into trouble in the Mid-Atlantic, 640 miles west of the Cape Verde islands.
Falmouth Coastguard picked up a distress beacon from Shealagh and Alan Ward's vessel on Saturday morning.
A major motorway was hit by an unusual traffic delay on Friday when a boat came off the back of a lorry.
The narrowboat slid off the lorry on the M1 in Leicestershire at junction 22 near Markfield.
Egyptian officials say salvage experts have located the wreck of a ferry which sank in the Red Sea almost two weeks ago killing about 1,000 people.
A £300m luxury liner being built by Cunard will feature a museum, a three-deck theatre and an art gallery.
The SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships and a vital link to the Titanic story, is returning to Belfast. The Northern Ireland Office bought the ship at an auction in Paris for £171,320.
Work on a vital North Sea gas platform has been suspended following a fire.
Two people were taken to hospital, one suffering from burns and one with shock. Staff on board put out the fire.
A fishing boat with six crew on board which began taking on water has been escorted back to port in Shetland.
The Banff-registered Replenish got into difficulties 30 miles south east of Lerwick at about 1520 GMT on Tuesday.
One of the worst oil spills in shipping history could happen again because of a poor planning for coastal emergencies, environmentalists have warned.
On the 10th anniversary of the Sea Empress disaster two separate groups criticised the lack of an emergency towing vessel to cover the Irish Sea.
An underwater mountain with some of the richest diversity of marine life in the Caribbean has been found by scientists. During a two-week dive researchers discovered scores more species of fish than previously known in the region and vast beds of "seaweed cities".
Shareholders in UK ports company P&O have voted to support a $6.8bn (£3.9bn) takeover bid by Dubai Ports World.
The deal with the Dubai government linked firm will create the world's third-largest ports group.
A cut in funds for policing at two north Wales ports has been criticised.
Port police at Holyhead and Mostyn carry out security checks, but from April North Wales Police will receive nearly £115,000 less to pay for them, compared with last year.
A revised masterplan for Glasgow's riverfront could create 10,000 jobs and a tourist destination rivalling Sydney, developers have claimed.
The new £1.2bn Glasgow Harbour project aims to create a city district on the north bank of the River Clyde.
A Devon shipping inspector says a ship detained in Falmouth is the worst he has seen in his 28-year career.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) inspected the Panama-registered cargo ship Saruna and found several serious safety breaches.
Alang, on the coast of Gujarat in western India, is known as the graveyard of ships. It has been the last port of call for thousands of ships from around the world.
And this is where the Clemenceau, a controversial decommissioned warship and one-time pride of the French navy, is heading - unless the Indian Supreme Court agrees with the environmental group, Greenpeace.
Divers have salvaged a 2m (6ft) bronze imperial eagle from the German World War II battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate.
Three divers had to loosen 145 bolts securing the 300kg (661lb) eagle to the stern of the craft in the muddy waters off Uruguay's capital, Montevideo.
The Suez canal has reopened after tug boats moved a cargo ship which had blocked the canal on Wednesday.
Traffic in one of the world's busiest waterways is now moving again.
HMS Ocean, the Royal Navy's largest amphibious warship, has set sail from it home base in Devon for a winter-training exercise in Norway.
It will include a 15,000 strong multi-national force operating at land and sea.
The first person hoping to sail solo around the world via the polar regions expects to face gale force winds as he rounds Cape Horn.
Adrian Flanagan, 45, from near Bicester, Oxfordshire, is due to tackle the notorious area this weekend.
One of Devon's biggest commercial employers has warned it may have to cut up to 900 jobs by 2008.
DML, which runs Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth, says it may be forced to shed the staff over the next two years unless it finds more work.
The quick actions of a fisherman on board a burning boat helped save his two colleagues' lives, according to the Fishermen's Mission.
Alex Slater said the skipper of the Kilkeel boat had risked his own life to put out a distress signal after a suspected gas explosion on board.
Devon coastguard has issued a warning to all vessels to carry VHF radio systems when they are out at sea.
Tales of swashbuckling pirates seizing ships on the high seas are the stuff of folklore and children's stories - real piracy has a human and financial cost, as one former naval captain knows only too well.
