Two dozen boats were in the general area of a stricken scalloping vessel when it sank off Cape May in March, but none came to its aid or joined a later search for survivors, a U.S. fisheries ...

With new video » CAPE MAY - The government's electronic boat tracking system showed that two dozen fishing boats near the Lady Mary when she sank simply kept on fishing. This surprised William Semrau, ...

When a boat sinks the VMS system often shows other fishing vessels converging on where the boat went down and searching for survivors. “I was very surprised. I didn’t see other vessels divert to the ...

POINT PLEASANT BEACH - Early Monday, before the sun was up, the Lady Gertrude was about 35 to 40 miles southeast of Sandy Hook in a fishing ground called the Chicken Canyon when she started to take on ...

The owner of a fishing vessel that claimed the lives of six people when it sank off the coast of Cape May last month expressed frustration this morning at the rescue response time and the Coast ...

Ward made the discovery using a remote-controlled underwater robot -- armed with cameras, lights and sonar -- while he was on board a 225-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Also on board were Coast Guard ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says a crabbing boat crew helped save four people on a fishing vessel in the Pacific Ocean Monday ...

sank off the Washington coast, families of the four crew members are left with a lot of questions, few answers and one haunting reality: They may never know why the 70-foot trawler went down. "That's ...

A British fishing boat that was 'held hostage' by the French authorities after allegedly operating without a licence has been reportedly released. The Lady T, based in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was ...