Most boat owners do not understand the intricacies of salvage, a unique part of maritime law that also has a blurred relationship to a towing service. Indeed, the law of salvage applies to all boats, ...

POINT PLEASANT BEACH — The first attempt to salvage a fishing boat that ran aground in Point Pleasant Beach earlier this week failed to get the vessel in the water. Crews from Donjon Marine Co. Inc.

Seized boats that should be adding money to government coffers instead are costing taxpayers money and turning the Miami River into a “floating junk yard,” Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., charged ...

Twice in the last year, barges moored at a Lafitte boat salvage yard have broken free during hurricanes and smashed into the Leo Kerner swing bridge, the only way for Barataria residents to access the ...

The Branson duck boat sinking earlier this month was extraordinary: 17 people died and the nation's eyes were glued to Table Rock Lake after an amphibious tourist boat sank in a stormy gale. While the ...

POINT PLEASANT BEACH - Salvage companies will begin the work this week on raising the Susan Rose, a 77-foot steel commercial trawler that grounded on the beach here last Nov. 17 and then sank during ...