Florida lawmakers passed a bill to hold owners of abandoned boats financially responsible for their removal. Nearly 900 derelict vessels are present in Florida waters, posing safety and environmental ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — As summer boating season kicks off, the City of St. Augustine is launching a two-week effort to remove nine abandoned boats from local waterways, aiming to improve safety and ...

Escambia County has made a lot of progress cleaning up derelict vessels in Bayou Chico, the county’s largest dumping ground of unwanted boats. However, people continue to “anchor and abandon” vessels ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill strengthening regulations on derelict vessels. The law clarifies vessel ownership, requires propulsion evaluations, and allows vessels with repeated citations ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A statewide problem is getting some attention in St. Augustine. Derelict boats are getting removed from local waterways. "There’s one, I think within our sight right now," Mark ...

Mike Provost was boating with his family one day when they saw a disintegrating boat tied up to a tree on the shore of Long Creek, one of the hundreds of creeks threading through the Virginia Beach ...

Abandoned boats have cluttered Laishley Park Marina in Punta Gorda for nearly eight months. Crews planned to move them today, but safety concerns due to lightning have delayed action. "It's only day ...

For nearly three years, drivers on San Carlos Island in Florida passed by an unusual sight tangled in the mangroves on the shoulder of a major road: a large white boat. The abandoned vessel was a ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – When Stephanie Price took over as manager of an RV park near Fort Myers Beach in southwest Florida, she had a problem: The bay bordering the park had abandoned, sunken boats. "One ...

Damaged boats are just one of many hazards left behind after storms. Randy Vance Mike Provost was boating with his family one day when they saw a disintegrating boat tied up to a tree on the shore of ...