“The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim is important to me because it commemorates the 29 lives lost in 1975 in Lake Superior,” VanderHoff said. “Although I was young at the time, I learned ...

Former diver James McLean, a North Sea Divers Memorial trustee, said that none of the deaths over the years had been in vain, as they led to tighter safety regulations.

A memorial spaceflight that promised to carry a Fuquay-Varina man’s ashes into low-Earth orbit and retrieve them as a keepsake malfunctioned on its re-entry, crashed into the Pacific Ocean and ...

Hundreds of residents gathered at Kurihama beach outside Tokyo over the weekend to pray for marine safety in a summer festival that fuses sacred ritual and seaside spectacle.