"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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Shares in Africa's biggest steel producer surge to a record high on the back of strong interim profits
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On a slow boat through 'Heart of Darkness' country, a Congolese ship's captain waxes nostalgic for colonial rule
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South African officials have built a housing development of fibreglass igloos for a colony of endangered penguins, hoping to replicate natural nesting grounds damaged by environmental degradation.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 13--Last November, the roar of offshore boats in the Gulf of Mexico could be heard all over Destin -- and they'll be heard again this fall.
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The latest hot homemade video claims that Coast Guard patrol boat security camers have blindspots. But in the YouTube age, viewers should be wary of their own
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Corporate South Africa's surge into other African countries is fueling perceptions of hegemony.
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Travel: The nation once dubbed 'Locombia' - the mad country - is much safer now. Nick Easen checks out its raft of new eco lodges
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Â· Secret military programme nears completion  Â· Vessels may undergo sea trials next year
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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 6 feet deep - and dropping. "The scientists have to explain this," said ship's engineer Gabriel Maziku.
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A new "gold rush" is luring anglers to South African rivers to do battle with the mighty yellowfish.
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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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The skipper of super-maxi, Skandia, has called for more safety features to be built into ocean racing yachts. The Skandia crew abandoned the boat on Tuesday after the keel was damaged in rough conditions in Bass Strait.
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DURBAN, South Africa  - Once a year the normally  tranquil waters off South Africa's balmy east coast bubble as  billions of sardines migrate north with sharks and dolphins in  hot pursuit.
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BYBLOS, Lebanon  - The Fishing Club in Byblos port, where the Mediterranean slaps against boats moored off Crusader ruins, offers one of Lebanon's most enticing views.
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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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Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.