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On any sunny weekend in the summer, the waters off Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Hampton are teeming with boating traffic. Although boating is great fun, Hampton Roads sees an upsurge of accidents on the water in June, Ju...

Operating a boat under the influence of alcohol can be just as dangerous as being behind the wheel of a car. Drunken boating in Virginia also carries a stiff sentence. On Saturday morning, 10 people were rescued from the...

We are horrified by the tragedy in Missouri in which 17 people lost their lives when a storm whipped up on a lake and drowned passengers on a duck boat. This accident again highlights duck boat safety fears. The duck boa...

We are all familiar with the notion of a lawsuit being brought over a fall on a slippery floor. However, the idea of a lawsuit over a floor that was not slippery enough appears unusual. That’s exactly what an injured m...

A fishing boat fire off the Outer Banks of North Carolina illustrates how quickly things can go wrong at sea. Nine people were on a fishing boat called the Twisted Tuna when a fire broke out on the vessel about 18 miles ...

The boating season is underway again. Hampton Roads, northeastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks offer many opportunities to get out on the water over the summer months. However, the number of Hampton Roads boating a...

Every summer tragedy strikes on the waterways off Hampton Roads in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. We were saddened to read about the death of a boogie boarder off the North Carolina coast this week. A report i...

In April, Norfolk had a reminder of the downside of the cruise industry when a ship with more than 100 people on board who had been struck down by the norovirus docked at the Half Moone Cruise and Celebration Center. Whe...

The recent boating deaths of a 4-year-old child and his 73-year-old grandfather in Caroline County has highlighted some of the dangers of boating. The child and his grandfather were on a fishing trip. They died after the...

Over the weekend my colleague John Cooper wrote about a serious jet ski crash on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach that left a teen with critical injuries. The accident has led people who live near the Lynnhaven Rive...