Rig ship sinks off Scottish coast
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An oil industry support vessel sinks off the north east coast of Scotland three days after it caught fire at sea.
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A helicopter crashes off the coast of the Netherlands but all 17 people on board are rescued.
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By GRAEME MURRAY  TWO men were in a serious condition in hospital today after a boat exploded near a popular beauty spot.  The pair were on a 24ft cruiser on the River Leven, near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire, when the craft burst into flames.
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With harsh weather tilting the bow half of a freighter wrecked off Alaska two weeks ago, up to 316,000 additional gallons of oil are thought to have spilled from the ship.
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The husband's story was extraordinary: He and his wife spent the afternoon cruising the bay on their watercraft before becoming bogged down in thick offshore mud. The vessel caught fire and sank, the couple was stranded for hours, and the wife was dead the next morning.
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Lifeboat crews saved the lives of three people after a pleasure boat went down off Whitby.   The former fishing vessel Iled'yeu hit motor tanker Dutch Progress four miles off the town soon after 10pm last night.   It quickly took in water from a damaged bough and began to sink.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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Two men are believed to have died when their light aircraft came down in the sea off the north-west coast of England, police and coastguard said.
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Efforts are being made to refloat an Irish Sea ferry which ran aground at a Scottish port in high winds.
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A ship containing toxic power station waste has sunk after being moored in a Turkish harbour for four years. The Ulla had sat in the port of Iskenderun in south-eastern Turkey amid confusion over the ship&#39;s future.
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Coastguards search for two crew from a tug which is thought to have sunk in the River Clyde.
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A ferry sailing from Larne, County Antrim, runs aground on rocks at Cairnryan Harbour in Scotland.
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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A rescue operation has been launched off the west of Scotland to help the crew of a Latvian cargo ship in trouble in heavy seas.
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A 92-foot crab boat with six crew members sank in the Bering Sea on Saturday, and the Coast Guard was searching for survivors. Three crewmen have been recovered, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said, but she would not say whether they survived.
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Shortly after a dramatic rescue, in which the British solo sailor Mike Golding pulled his fellow racer Alex Thomson from a life raft on the Southern Ocean early yesterday morning, the two encountered another perilous situation when the top of Goldingâs mast broke in two places.
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MIAMI - Coast Guard crews rescued six people after their $1.2 million sailboat sank off the Florida coast, all captured by television helicopter cameras showing the vessel disappear under the waves.