Ghostly plastic bathtoy flotilla nears Cornish coast
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Greed-crazed salvage junk bonanza mob frenzy brewing Residents of the western UK and Irish coasts have been warned to expect an invasion by a vast flotilla of ghostly, immortal albino plastic ducks, according to reports.â¦
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Emergency services deal with a chemical scare on a beach after oil barrels cause noxious fumes.
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People are being warned to stay away from a stretch of beach in Devon due to contamination of the water with diesel fuel from a stricken ship.
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Plastic Father Christmases may festoon Belfast&#39;s many lampposts, but there was little sign yesterday of the season of goodwill.
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By Courtney Cutright, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 15--Captains braved the cold weather Saturday evening as temperatures dipped into the low 30s for the Virginia Dare's 9th annual Flotilla For Toys.   A total of 24 boats, including two SML Marine Fire boats, lined up for the parade.
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People who took items washed ashore from the MSC Napoli off Lyme Bay have until Tuesday to report their finds.
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SYDNEY -- Australian bathers have become ensnared in an environmental tangle -- the nets that protect them from sharks pose a threat to a growing whale population. Save the whales, demand some wildlife campaigners. Save the humans, counters the government.
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Anyone gazing out to sea from the east Kent coast on Tuesday will have seen an unusual flurry of lifeboats and helicopters. Two miles off Deal a disaster was unfolding - two 100ft boats
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Is your shoreline sanitary? See what could be lurking at a sandy spot near you.
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With the twist of a knob, electronics technician Erik White sent a burst of sonar into the water just west of Bassetts Island off Pocasset. About 20 feet from the boat where White stood, a small bright yellow watercraft came to life.
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Britain's first offshore off-license vending boat has resumed business off the coast of Teesside, the BBC reported Sunday.
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A year on since a shipwreck off the English south coast, locals are still revelling in their wild days of frenzied pillaging. But they are keeping mum on who grabbed the best plunder.
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Vince Wilson sets out to prove and explain the existence of ghosts with an arsenal of poltergeek gear. By Chris Suellentrop from Wired magazine.
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It's a version of Seaside &#151; carefully created at a fraction of its actual size &#151; just waiting to be slammed by a tsunami.
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LONDON: Rescue workers combed an English coastal village in north Cornwall yesterday for people missing after a flash flood caused by torrential rain hit Britain&#39;s southwestern Atlantic coast.
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Seagull poo on solar cells is primary tech snag In the Irish Sea off Wales this week, a new kind of robot is taking to the waves. For once, this is not a military kill-droid, nor a securo-pork powered surveillance machine. Instead, we are seeing the debut of the fully-autonomous sailboat, which uses its own software to navigate out at sea. For now the uninhabited windjammers will stay relatively close to home but, next year, their successors will race across the Atlantic.â¦
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A renewable energy system built in the Highlands is to be tried out in the sea off Orkney.