Damaged boats are just one of many hazards left behind after storms. Randy Vance Mike Provost was boating with his family one day when they saw a disintegrating boat tied up to a tree on the shore of ...

The cleanup bill has also become a public expense: Florida spent about $13 million removing abandoned vessels in 2024 alone.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Rotting hulls. Leaking oil. Tangled fishing lines. Abandoned and derelict vessels pose growing problems in waterways nationwide, leading to safety risks, environmental harm, ...

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - A collaboration between state agencies, Charleston County, the City of Charleston Harbor Patrol and a local nonprofit successfully removed two abandoned boats from ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – As the owner of a marina, Kate Gervais is used to seeing boats in the water. But for the last couple of days, she's been seeing them in the air. The Washington Department of Natural ...

Several apparently abandoned boats berthed at poles on the western side of Porirua Harbour could be forcibly sold if none of ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — As a spring tide on Broad Creek ebbed in the early afternoon of Sept. 10, the hull of what had once been a modest sailboat revealed itself just past the ramp at Cross Island Boat ...

Abandoned boats and docks are littering the waters of one of Atlanta's favorite playgrounds: Lake Lanier. But it's not just that they're ugly. They're dangerous. Sharp pieces of jagged metal drift ...

Lightning struck an abandoned boat at Alton Marina in Alton, Illinois, on July 4, 2026, toppling its mast onto another ...