dispatches

TheUSS Sequoia, a 104-foot wooden yacht built by John Trumpy Sr., served nine U.S. presidents from 1933 to 1977, when President Jimmy Carter decided to

Thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts have flocked annually to Port Townsend, Washington, the site of the eponymous Wooden Boat Festival, since the first one was

Barry Clifford, explorer and underwater archaeologist, discovered the first artifacts of the pirate ship Whydah in 1984. The ship sank after she was driven aground

When the ice-coated barge-tug combo Great Lakes Trader -Joyce L. VanEnkevort passed through the Duluth, Minnesota, ship canal on Lake Superior on Dec. 13, the

TheSS United States, which was the pinnacle of naval architecture and maritime engineering in ocean liners, faces an uncertain future. In February 2016 the luxury

This clip is part of a larger body of work shot and produced by William Harry Pfaffle of Fayette, Maine. He made five films for

This video of the pointy-nosed blue chimaera was recorded when the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute sent a remotely operated vehicle on several dives as

Rob Miller has been fishing off Chatham, Massachusetts, and Nantucket for 15 years. His four-person team brought home the $3,000 first-place prize at the inaugural

Mexican and U.S. scientists encountered 29 groups of Cuvier’s beaked whales and studied their habitat and behavioral patterns during a two-week field survey in October

On Dec. 7, the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship Okeanos Explorer explored a Japanese mini-submarine,