The 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas was built in 2006 and sails under a Liberian flag. The car and truck carrier left ...

Midas caught fire Tuesday roughly 300 miles from Adak, Alaska. The ship was carrying thousands of vehicles when it erupted.

All 22 crew members evacuated safely into a life raft and were rescued by the nearby merchant vessel. The post Cargo ship ...

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he called them, “seismic scarecrows.” Gardeners he spoke to use these ...

Nearly two dozen crew members were rescued from a burning cargo ship that caught fire off the Alaska coast earlier this week.