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 ====== Incidents ======
-===== 2025 British Collision =====
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 https://gizmodo.com/smoldering-ship-leaking-billions-of-plastic-pellets-sin-1847015857
+====== Ships ======
+===== Blue Herron =====
+== Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland ==
+Peter Krouse - Jul. 03, 2025, 10:16 a.m. / Updated Jul. 03, 2025, 4:58 p.m.
+CLEVELAND, Ohio - A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form of life.
+The revelation occurred after the research vessel Blue Heron, which was monitoring harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, began having mechanical issues.
+The captain, Rual Lee, piloted the boat to Cleveland where it could be examined in a dry dock at Great Lakes Shipyard on the Old River Channel of the Cuyahoga River.
+After the Blue Heron was lifted out of the water and lowered onto a parking lot, the problem was diagnosed. The propellor shaft bearings needed replacing.
+But as one mystery was resolved, another more enigmatic one emerged.
+Lee noticed a tar-like substance oozing from the rudder post, a normally hidden component of the ship’s steering apparatus that was exposed during maintenance.
+He had never seen anything like it during previous dry dock inspections of the ship, a former fishing boat acquired by the University of Minnesota Duluth to conduct research.
+Curious, Lee took a glop of the goo and plopped it in water to see if it left a sheen. It didn’t. Then he turned a blowtorch on the slimy substance to see if it would burn. It didn’t do that either.
+https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html
 ====== Shipping ======
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 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240119-red-sea-crisis-how-global-shipping-is-being-rerouted-out-of-danger
+==  10 rescued, 3 killed and others ‘kidnapped’ after Houthis sink ship in second Red Sea attack in a week ==
+Mostafa Salem, CNN - Updated 12:07 PM EDT, Thu July 10, 2025
+ Ten people have been rescued from the Red Sea after their ship sank near Yemen following an attack by the Houthis, according to the European Union’s maritime security mission, with several others believed to be being held by the rebel group.
+The Houthis said they had taken some of those on board to an undisclosed location following the attack on the Eternity C, the second time they have targeted commercial shipping in the Red Sea this week. Maritime security sources told Reuters that the Yemeni militia was believed to be holding six crew members.
+Three of the 25 people on board were killed in the attack, the EU’s Operation Aspides told CNN.
+The ship’s crew consisted of 22 members – 21 Filipinos and one Russian – while a three-person security team was also on board, according to the EU mission, which coordinates rescue operations in the Red Sea.
+The mission said that of the ten people recovered from the water on Wednesday and overnight into Thursday, eight were Filipino crew members, while the other two were security personnel, of Greek and Indian nationality.
+https://www.cnn.com/world/middleeast/eternity-c-houthi-rebels-red-sea-intl-hnk
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 https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/news/matter-petition-grace-ocean-private-limited-et-al-exoneration-or-limitation-liability-2024-04
+== Loose Wire on Containership Dali Leads to Blackouts and Contact with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge ==
+/18/2025
+Blackouts led to loss of steering and propulsion on 984-foot-long vessel
+WASHINGTON (Nov. 18, 2025) -- The NTSB said Tuesday that a single loose wire on the 984-foot-long containership Dali caused an electrical blackout that led to the giant vessel veering and contacting the nearby Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which then collapsed, killing six highway workers.
+At Tuesday’s public meeting at NTSB headquarters, investigators said the loose wire in the ship’s electrical system caused a breaker to unexpectedly open -- beginning a sequence of events that led to two vessel blackouts and a loss of both propulsion and steering near the 2.37-mile-long Key Bridge on March 26, 2024. Investigators found that wire-label banding prevented the wire from being fully inserted into a terminal block spring-clamp gate, causing an inadequate connection.
+After the initial blackout, the Dali’s heading began swinging to starboard toward Pier 17 of the Key Bridge. Investigators found that the pilots and the bridge team attempted to change the vessel’s trajectory, but the loss of propulsion so close to the bridge rendered their actions ineffective. A substantial portion of the bridge subsequently collapsed into the river, and portions of the pier, deck and truss spans collapsed onto the vessel’s bow and forwardmost container bays.
+A seven-person road maintenance crew and one inspector were on the bridge when the vessel struck. Six of the highway workers died. The NTSB found that the quick actions of the Dali pilots, shoreside dispatchers and the Maryland Transportation Authority to stop bridge traffic prevented greater loss of life.
+https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx
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 https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/ship_electric_fire/
+== Cargo Ship Carrying Flaming EVs Sinks Off the Coast of Alaska ==
+The potential for an oil spill is... high.
+AJ Dellinger - June 25, 2025
+If you were waiting on a new car, the Domino’s Pizza Tracker equivalent for vehicle orders might be stuck at the “Delivery” spot for a while. A cargo ship carrying a fleet of electric vehicles, hybrids, and gas-powered vehicles sank, according to the New York Times, after catching fire while crossing the Pacific.
+The Morning Midas, a ship sailing under a Liberian flag and managed by international shipping firm Zodiac Maritime, went under about 360 nautical miles from the coast of Alaska, according to the report. The ship had caught fire about three weeks ago and sustained additional damage from severe weather before it finally headed to its watery grave. It was reportedly sailing from China to Mexico with a large load of automotive cargo on board.
+The 600-foot boat was carrying 70 electric vehicles, 681 hybrids, and more than 2,000 conventional vehicles, according to information provided by the U.S. Coast Guard. It was also carrying about 1,800 metric tons of ship fuel, which is great for a ship crossing the ocean and not so great for a ship headed to the sea floor, as it creates the potential for an oil spill. According to the Times, none of the cargo that was on board the Morning Midas was salvaged before it went down.
+While the cars went down with the ship, the Morning Midas crew was successfully evacuated. The 22 crew members were all evacuated by lifeboat and picked up by a commercial ship shortly after the initial fire broke out on June 3. They ditched the ship once it was clear they couldn’t contain the fire, which burned for about a week before firefighting crews were able to reach it. The fire did burn out before the ship sank, but not soon enough to allow anything to be saved.
+https://gizmodo.com/cargo-ship-carrying-flaming-evs-sinks-off-the-coast-of-alaska-2000620335
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 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ironton-shipwreck-lake-huron-180981741/
+===== Edmund Fitzgerald =====
+== These men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. They share their stories ==
+Jamie L. LaReau - November 2, 2025 / Updated November 6, 2025 7:38 PM ET
+Terrence Tysall was carrying everything he needed to stay alive on his back one September day in 1995 as he jumped into Lake Superior and started his death-defying descent, traveling more than 500 feet through dark, 34-degree water to the bottom.
+When Tysall and his diving partner, Mike Zlatopolsky, made it to the clay floor of Lake Superior, their high-powered, cave-diving lights illuminated the port side — the left side of the ship facing the front — of the wreckage that was once the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
+The Edmund Fitzgerald — a 729-foot-long freighter, once the largest on the Great Lakes — sank about 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan during a violent storm on Nov. 10, 1975. All 29 crew members on board died. Their bodies were never recovered.
+Once he reached the wreckage, Tysall swam around the ship and suddenly did something that, to this day, he told the Free Press he is not sure why he did it.
+"I just reached out with both of my gloved hands and I gripped the rim," he said. "I’m a touching-learning kind of guy, so with me grabbing that rail, it made it so real to me that, 'Oh my gosh, I’m the first living hand to touch this rail since she sank.' It was a very special moment. That’s when it stopped being a logistical endeavor. This is a grave, and this is a privilege to be here.”
+Privilege, indeed, for Tysall and Zlatopolsky, because they are the only two people to ever scuba dive to the wreck. Before them, only a handful of people had gone down to the Edmund Fitzgerald, and they did it in submersibles — underwater vehicles, manned or unmanned, that require a support ship as opposed to self-sufficient submarines.
+https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/11/02/edmund-fitzgerald-wreck-diving/86752517007/
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 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spanish-shipwreck-reveals-evidence-of-earliest-known-pet-cats-to-arrive-in-the-united-states-180986560/
+===== Empress of Ireland =====
+== How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor ==
+In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didn’t add up
+Eve Lazarus - 6:30, Jul. 5, 2025
+I t’s the morning of August 22, 2019, and I’m in a Zodiac bouncing along the waters of the St. Lawrence River. It can hold six divers and all their gear, but this morning, there are only six of us—no gear. Far from being divers, we are curiosity seekers from New York, Vancouver, London, and Montreal, all obsessed with the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, which claimed 1,014 lives in 1914.
+Until a few years ago, I had never heard of the Empress and its disastrous end. And that’s staggering, because the loss of passenger life (836) outnumbered that of the Titanic (832).
+The Empress, owned by the all-powerful Canadian Pacific Railway, carried more than 117,000 people between Liverpool, England, and Saint John, New Brunswick, and later Halifax or Quebec City, depending on the season, in ninety-six round trips between 1906 and 1914. A million or so Canadians from coast to coast can trace their roots back to an ancestor who came to Canada on this ship.
+Every schoolchild knows the story of the Titanic, the luxury ocean liner that hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. So why did the Empress tragedy, which claimed even more passenger lives a little over two years later, fail to embed itself in our collective national consciousness?
+https://thewalrus.ca/empress-of-ireland-survivor-mystery/
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+== New Study Reveals Why the Endurance Sank ==
+It turns out explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton knew his vessel had shortcomings.
+Margherita Bassi - October 6, 2025
+British polar explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton established his place in the annals of history after ensuring the survival of his entire crew following the shipwreck of Endurance in 1915. A new paper sheds light on the state of the infamous vessel—and what Shackleton knew of it before setting off.
+Jukka Tuhkuri, a polar explorer and researcher specializing in ice mechanics and arctic marine technology at Finland’s Aalto University, has revealed that Endurance was not as sturdy as widely believed, and that Shackleton knew about its structural shortcomings. His work adds nuance to one of the most famous survival stories over 100 years since the explorer’s death and three years since he and the rest of the Endurance22 mission found the shipwreck.
+https://gizmodo.com/new-study-reveals-why-the-endurance-sank-2000667287
+==  Here’s the real reason Endurance sank ==
+The ship wasn't designed to withstand the powerful ice compression forces—and Shackleton knew it.
+Jennifer Ouellette – Oct 6, 2025 3:00 AM
+In 1915, intrepid British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew were stranded for months in the Antarctic after their ship, Endurance, was trapped by pack ice, eventually sinking into the freezing depths of the Weddell Sea. Miraculously, the entire crew survived. The prevailing popular narrative surrounding the famous voyage features two key assumptions: that Endurance was the strongest polar ship of its time, and that the ship ultimately sank after ice tore away the rudder.
+However, a fresh analysis reveals that Endurance would have sunk even with an intact rudder; it was crushed by the cumulative compressive forces of the Antarctic ice with no single cause for the sinking. Furthermore, the ship wasn't designed to withstand those forces, and Shackleton was likely well aware of that fact, according to a new paper published in the journal Polar Record. Yet he chose to embark on the risky voyage anyway.
+Author Jukka Tuhkuri of Aalto University is a polar explorer and one of the leading researchers on ice worldwide. He was among the scientists on the Endurance22 mission that discovered the Endurance shipwreck in 2022, documented in a 2024 National Geographic documentary. The ship was in pristine condition partly because of the lack of wood-eating microbes in those waters. In fact, the Endurance22 expedition's exploration director, Mensun Bound, told The New York Times at the time that the shipwreck was the finest example he's ever seen; Endurance was "in a brilliant state of preservation."
+https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/heres-the-real-reason-endurance-sank/
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+===== La Fortuna =====
+== Possible Spanish Shipwreck From the 1700s Emerges From North Carolina Marsh ==
+Researchers believe it's the remains of La Fortuna, a ship involved in a failed Spanish raid.
+Margherita Bassi - August 15, 2025
+Archaeologists in Brunswick County, North Carolina, have discovered four shipwrecks in just two months.
+One could be La Fortuna, a Spanish ship destroyed in September 1748, during King George’s War. The researchers found the wrecks and a number of colonial waterfront features in May and June at the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (BTFA), the former location of a pre-Revolutionary port and later a Civil War Confederate fort. The exposed remains, previously hidden beneath a marsh, are now vulnerable to erosion.
+“We are extremely excited about these important sites, as each one will help us to better understand the role of BTFA as one of the state’s earliest colonial port towns,” Jason Raupp, an archaeologist at East Carolina University who led the discovery team involved, said in a university statement.
+Raupp and his colleagues found the shipwrecks along the BTFA shoreline. Samples from one of the wrecks revealed that the ship included timber from either Monterey cypresses or Mexican cypresses, meaning wood from either Southern California or Central America. According to the researchers, this suggests that shipbuilders in the 18th century used materials from Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.
+https://gizmodo.com/possible-spanish-shipwreck-from-the-1700s-spotted-on-north-carolina-shore-2000643450
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 https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/scientists-glean-clues-about-how-we-age-from-mary-rose-crew-bones/
+===== San Jose Galleon =====
+== 300-Year-Old Coins Help Confirm Shipwreck as the Long-Lost San José Galleon ==
+The Spanish galleon sank in 1708 and was discovered in 2015, but its true identity remained unconfirmed—until now.
+Margherita Bassi - June 11, 2025
+In 1708, the British sank a Spanish galleon—a large war and/or merchant ship used from the 15th through the 17th centuries—off the coast of Colombia. Over three centuries later, its cargo of gold coins may have just helped scientists finally identify its wreck.
+A team of researchers and naval officers used an uncrewed remotely operated underwater vehicle to study an 18th-century shipwreck that the Colombian government discovered in 2015. Their survey uncovered coins that provide further evidence the wreck is likely the long-lost San José Galleon, highlighting the usefulness of coins as chronological markers in marine archaeology.
+“The Tierra Firme Fleet, commanded by the San José Galleon, held the exclusive monopoly on transporting royal treasures between South America and the Iberian Peninsula,” explained Daniela Vargas Ariza, lead author of the study published earlier this week in Antiquity, in a statement. Vargas Ariza is also an archaeologist affiliated with the Almirante Padilla Naval Cadet School and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History.
+The fleet was one of the Hispanic Monarchy’s most important cargo fleets, according to the statement. Also known as the Catholic Monarchy, the crown ferried royal cargo from the Americas between the 16th and 18th centuries. That brings us back to 1708, when historical sources suggest that the British sank a cargo-heavy San José Galleon in Colombian waters.
+https://gizmodo.com/300-year-old-coins-help-confirm-shipwreck-as-the-long-lost-san-jose-galleon-2000614140
+===== Nossa Senhora do Cabo =====
+== Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast ==
+The vessel, seized by infamous pirates en route to Lisbon from Goa, was carrying an “eye-watering” amount of treasure, archeologists say.
+Natalia Mesa - July 7, 2025
+In 1721, pirates attacked and seized a Portuguese ship carrying a massive trove of treasure en route to Lisbon. Now, researchers believe they’ve discovered its remains off the coast of Madagascar.
+The discovery comes from two researchers from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation in Massachusetts, who have conducted several studies on the wreckage over the last 16 years. They say new clues have revealed the ship’s identity as the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a 700-ton warship. Their findings were published in Wreckwatch Magazine, but have not been peer-reviewed.
+The wreck lies near the shores of Nosy Boraha, an island off Madagascar’s northern coast historically known as Île Sainte-Marie, a notorious pirate stronghold during the “Golden Age of Piracy.” The capture of Nossa Senhora do Cabo was “among the most dramatic episodes” of this era, the authors wrote in the study.
+In the study, the researchers conducted underwater excavations using sonar imaging and remote sensing technology. They identified the ship based on its structure and artifacts recovered from the ship’s remains, along with archaeological records. They discovered religious figurines and objects made of wood and ivory, including one depicting the Virgin Mary, part of a crucifix, and an ivory plaque bearing a religious inscription. According to the researchers, these items were likely produced in Goa—which, at the time, was colonized by Portugal—and were being transported to Lisbon.
+https://gizmodo.com/lost-for-300-years-pirate-plundered-treasure-ship-discovered-off-madagascar-coast-2000623968
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+===== Svaelget 2 =====
+== Archaeologists Uncover Gigantic Medieval Ship With Features Seen Only on Paper ==
+The shipwreck is exceptionally preserved and provides the first archaeological confirmation of features seen in illustrations.
+Margherita Bassi - January 14, 2026
+Maritime archaeologists in Denmark have discovered a gargantuan medieval ship off the coast of Copenhagen.
+The vessel, named Svaelget 2, is the world’s largest known cog—a merchant ship in the Middle Ages (another term for the medieval era) that revolutionized trade. Its extraordinary preservation is shedding light not just on the ship and its trade context, but on the lives of those that sailed aboard it.
+Svaelget 2 is around 92 feet (28 meters) long, 19.7 feet (6 meters) high, and 29.5 feet (9 meters) wide. It was probably capable of hauling 300 tons of cargo, according to the team’s estimates. The existence of this ship hints at a fixed, consistent system of trade throughout Northern Europe.
+“A ship with such a large cargo capacity is part of a structured system where merchants knew there was a market for the goods they carried. Svælget 2 is a tangible example of how trade developed during the Middle Ages,” Otto Uldum, excavation leader and maritime archaeologist at the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark, said in a museum statement. What’s more, “It required a society that could finance, build and equip these enormous ships that served the Middle Ages’ need for export and import over great distances.”
+https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-uncover-gigantic-medieval-ship-with-features-known-only-from-historical-records-2000710146
+== Archaeologists Say They’ve Unearthed a Massive Medieval Cargo Ship That’s the Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever Found ==
+Spotted off the coast of Denmark, the “Svaelget 2” is a cog, a kind of large trading vessel used in the Middle Ages. Experts say the 600-year-old discovery is “exceptionally well-preserved”
+Sonja Anderson
+Sonja Anderson - January 12, 2026
+Forty feet below the waves of Oresund, the strait between Denmark and Sweden, researchers have discovered the wreckage of a 600-year-old ship. Extravagantly outfitted and remarkably preserved, it’s a medieval cargo vessel also known as a cog. Experts say it’s the largest ship of its kind ever found.
+Maritime archaeologists from Denmark’s Viking Ship Museum came across the shipwreck while surveying the seabed. According to a statement from the museum, the silt-covered vessel—called Svaelget 2—measures about 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Experts estimate its cargo capacity was 300 tons.
+“The find is a milestone for maritime archaeology,” says archaeologist Otto Uldum, the leader of the excavation, in the statement. “It is the largest cog we know of, and it gives us a unique opportunity to understand both the construction and life on board the biggest trading ships of the Middle Ages.”
+https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-massive-medieval-cargo-ship-thats-the-largest-vessel-of-its-kind-ever-found-180987984/
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 https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/17/wind-powered-cargo-ships-are-the-future-debunking-4-myths-that-stand-in-the-way-of-cutting-emissions/
+===== Neoliner Origin =====
+== World’s Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing ==
+MI News Network - October 31, 2025
+The world’s largest cargo sailboat, Neoliner Origin, completed its first transatlantic voyage on 30 October despite damage to one of its sails during the journey.
+The 136-metre-long vessel had to rely partly on its auxiliary motor and its remaining sail after the aft sail was damaged in a storm shortly after departure.
+The French-built roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo ship, which has two semi-rigid sails, first stopped at Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a French overseas territory near Canada, before continuing its journey to Baltimore in the United States.
+Neoline, the company behind the project, said the damage reduced the vessel’s ability to perform fully on wind power. The company’s CEO, Jean Zanuttini, said the crossing was a valuable experience in handling large sail surfaces across the North Atlantic, especially during late-season storms. He added that despite the difficulties, the ship showed strong resilience by reaching its destination with only a short delay in Saint Pierre.
+https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-first-atlantic-crossing/
+== World's Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing ==
+Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday November 08, 2025 11:34AM
+Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from Marine Insight:
+<blockquote>
+The world's largest cargo sailboat, Neoliner Origin, completed its first transatlantic voyage on 30 October despite damage to one of its sails during the journey. The 136-metre-long vessel had to rely partly on its auxiliary motor and its remaining sail after the aft sail was damaged in a storm shortly after departure... Neoline, the company behind the project, said the damage reduced the vessel's ability to perform fully on wind power...
+The Neoliner Origin is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 90 percent compared to conventional diesel-powered cargo ships. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global shipping produces about 3 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions...
+The ship can carry up to 5,300 tonnes of cargo, including containers, vehicles, machinery, and specialised goods. It arrived in Baltimore carrying Renault vehicles, French liqueurs, machinery, and other products. The Neoliner Origin is scheduled to make monthly voyages between Europe and North America, maintaining a commercial cruising speed of around 11 knots.
+</blockquote>
+https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/08/1759258/worlds-largest-cargo-sailboat-completes-historic-first-atlantic-crossing