Steve Callahan, 73, learned to fish and make water while stranded alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 1982 ...

Visit Your Life Raft Imagine meeting your raft for the first time while swimming in 6-foot seas, in the dark, without your glasses, your eyes burning from diesel fuel, knowing loved ones are also in ...

Fishing crews from southwest Nova Scotia credit good planning and safety training for a successful rescue at sea early Monday ...

Coast Guard rescues adults, child from life raft after vessel becomes partially submerged Two adults and an 8-year-old child were rescued and airlifted to safety from a life raft by the U.S. Coast ...

A new book, A Marriage at Sea, tells the tale of what happened next: The Baileys transferred themselves, 33 tins of food, and ...

With their lives figuratively “on the line,” four UB faculty members will have to use their wit and persuasive skills to survive in the upcoming Life Raft Debate. The seventh annual debate, sponsored ...

The regulations have become even more stringent now, with SOLAS mandating ships to carry enough lifeboats and life rafts for 125% of the ship's total capacity.

The raft had no maps, oars, or navigational instruments. On the first night, wind and white-capped waves wracked the raft. By morning, about a dozen were missing and many others grievously injured.