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 [...]
Strangers and Saviors at Sea: Fire Aboard M/V Min Jiang Kou and the Those Who Came to Help
630 miles from the nearest shore, an engine-room fire drove [...]
Fair Winds and Farewell: Celebrating the Retirement of Colonel Walter M. Herd
On July 24, 2026, at the General George Patton Museum [...]
The Long Watch After the Storm: Chronic Strain and the Seafarers Happiness Index
The guns have gone quiet in the Persian Gulf (for [...]
Rescuers with the Fewest Remedies: Cumulative Brain Injury and a Warning for Every Mariner
A new investigation finds that the elite crews who operate [...]