Historic workboat sinks on Milwaukee waterfront A historic Lake Michigan workboat took on water and sank on the morning of Feb. 21 in Milwaukee. City authorities told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Harbor Seagull likely started taking on water that morning or possibly a day earlier. The boat is operated by the Port of Milwaukee. The cause of the sinking is…

Maersk containership loses 750 containers in Pacific The containership Maersk Essen has diverted to Mexico after losing about 750 40-foot containers in the Pacific Ocean. The 13,100-TEU vessel was sailing from Xiamen, China to Los Angeles when it encountered heavy weather on Jan. 16, A.P. Moller-Maersk said. An unknown number of containers were damaged in addition to those lost overboard.…

NTSB details lessons learned in new Safer Seas Digest The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its annual report highlighting lessons learned from maritime accident investigations. Safer Seas Digest 2019, released earlier this month, contains key details from notable incident reports during the 2019 calendar year. Entries for more than two-dozen incidents contain condensed versions of the incident reports,…