The Philippines filed a diplomatic protest against Beijing on Thursday, a government official said, following fresh encounters between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea.
https://gcaptain.com/philippines-files-protest-against-china-after-sea-incidents/
China and the Philippines gave conflicting versions on Wednesday of a maritime confrontation around a contested shoal in the South China Sea, the latest row in a longstanding dispute between the neighbours.
https://gcaptain.com/philippines-china-trade-accusations-on-new-south-china-sea-confrontation/
Captain Avhilash Rawat had just finished dinner when an anti-ship ballistic missile smashed into his oil tanker.
https://gcaptain.com/what-its-like-to-captain-a-tanker-on-fire-after-a-houthi-attack/
A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground and sank off the coast of Samoa last month as a result of human error, a government-initiated inquiry found on Friday.
https://gcaptain.com/new-zealand-navy-ship-sank-due-to-human-error-inquiry-finds/
Sweden is asking a Chinese vessel to return to Swedish waters to help facilitate the Nordic country’s investigation into recent breaches of undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday.
https://gcaptain.com/sweden-urges-chinese-ship-to-return-for-undersea-cable-investigation/
The investigation surrounding Chinese bulker carrier Yi Peng 3 suspected of damaging two submarine cables in the Baltic Sea continues to expand.
Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 remains stopped in the Danish Straits with a Navy patrol ship in close proximity. The vessel is suspected of being involved in the damage…
A day after the C-Lion1 and BCS subsea data cables in the Baltic Sea, connecting Finland and Germany as well as Sweden and Lithuania, were damaged, specifics of the incident remain unconfirmed.
The damaging of two undersea telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea should be presumed to be sabotage, Germany said on Tuesday, while Lithuania’s armed forces boosted surveillance of its waters in response.
https://gcaptain.com/germany-says-damage-to-baltic-underwater-cables-should-be-presumed-sabotage/
The U.S. Coast Guard Station Mayport responded to a dredger fire on Saturday afternoon. The fire was reported in the engine room of the Stuyvesant, a 340-foot dredger, near the…
https://gcaptain.com/dredger-suffers-engine-room-fire-near-st-johns-river/