"Stealth" shows S.Africa boat-builders ride high
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Cocooned inside a Cape Town warehouse  is South Africa's bid for power on the seas: a $1.5 million  Stealth catamaran, the latest offering from a burgeoning  boat-building industry.
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There's something fishy afoot in the world of Dutch herring.
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About 300 African migrants travel to the Canary Islands by boat, bringing the number of recent arrivals to 600.
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Patrolling in a wooden boat between the thickly forested banks of the broad Sangha river, the four "eco-guards" have something to show for their efforts to tackle poaching in this swathe of central Africa.
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Exercising safety is the operative phrase as North Dakota's summer boating season revs into high gear.
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All around the periphery of the Indian Ocean last Sunday morning, people were going about their lives in the most prosaic and familiar of ways: shopping for vegetables, watching cricket on television, hauling in fishing nets, lounging at poolside.
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By CHARLES J. HANLEY  JINJA, Uganda - At Jinja pier the rusty red hull of a Lake Victoria freighter sat barely afloat in water just six feet deep - and dropping. "The scientists have to explain this," said ship's engineer Gabriel Maziku.
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It's not the size of your offshore rigs, it's how you use them.
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By Bill Michelmore The noise and the wake created by 50-foot-long jet boats on the Niagara River come across loud and clear. Erosion of the riverbanks is a more elusive concern.
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This small maker of pleasure boats continues to glide along under the radar of most of Wall Street.
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Guards at a riverfront Army ammunition plant in Tennessee report that boaters have entered restricted areas, holes are often found in a perimeter fence and a government contractor steps up security to impress inspectors.
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Coast Guard divers prowl the depths of the St. Johns River and inspect the hulls of cruise ships here. Federal helicopters fitted with crowd-surveillance cameras soar overhead. Hundreds of manholes have been locked down, and thousands of security forces are poised to hit the streets.
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African leaders from the Great Lakes sign a $2bn security and development deal to try to prevent more bloodshed.
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A shipping tycoon has mounted Africa's first challenge in the America's Cup series with a motley crew capped by a group of black and mixed-race young men.
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Botswana's capital offers an example of one city's efforts to manage explosive growth.
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Surfers around the world may complain about crowded conditions, but for dozens of South Africa wave riders it was the more the merrier as they lined up to break a world record by riding a single wave.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.