Redrawing the Chart: Iran Moves to Manage (and Meter) the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran says it will soon publish maps of a new [...]
Mission Accomplished?
A projectile has opened another tanker just above the waterline [...]
A School Ship Called to War
The U.S. Navy needed a ship, and the one it [...]
The “Protestant Wind”: What the Wreck of the Spanish Armada Still Can Teach a Mariner
Four hundred and thirty-eight years ago, a fleet built to [...]
The Land Under Your Keel: State Waters, Federal Waters, and Why Nine Miles Changes Everything
Second in our series on the law of the water. [...]
Eyes Off the Water: The NTSB Report on the Fatal M/V Miss Peggy Collision
Two years after a towboat capsized in our own Houston [...]
“The Golden Tide”: A Record Sargassum Bloom, the Fleets Sent to Fight It, and the Law That Rides With Its Crews
A record mass of sargassum seaweed is smothering Caribbean and [...]
U.S. Gulf Lease Sales: The “Blocks” on the Auction Block
Sixteen companies bid $82.7 million for the right to drill [...]
An Ancient Promise at Sea: How Maintenance and Cure Crossed a Thousand Years and Every Ocean
From the medieval Rolls of Oléron to the courts of [...]
Lines Drawn in the Water: Who Owns the Sea, and Who May Charge You to Cross It
Repeatedly, Iran and Oman are close to a “deal” that [...]