PORTLAND, Maine—The cost of the unprecedented search for the missing Titan submersible will easily stretch into the millions of dollars, experts said Friday. The massive international effort by aircraft, surface ships, and deep-sea robots began on June 18 when the Titan was reported missing. Searchers raced against a 96-hour clock in the desperate hope to…

SAN PEDRO, Calif.—The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its active search on the evening of June 21 for a sailor who fell overboard from a bulk carrier vessel 14 miles southwest of Point Conception. Coast Guard crews searched by air and sea for nearly 15 hours, covering more than 200 square nautical miles in an attempt…

SAN DIEGO—A search was continuing April 15 for three American citizens who were sailing from Mexico to San Diego but have been missing for more than a week. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien, and William Gross left Mazatlán, Mexico, on April 4 on the sailing vessel Ocean Bound, a 44-foot La Fitte, and had planned to…

PIGEON KEY, Fla.—A woman from Illinois was killed and two young children were injured when a sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the Florida Keys, authorities said. A nearby boater saw them hit the water and…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Federal authorities detained 17 Dominican migrants on Friday after their boat capsized near Puerto Rico’s northwest coast in the pre-dawn hours, with the U.S. Coast Guard searching for an estimated 10 others still missing. Jeffrey Quiñones, a Customs and Border Patrol spokesman, told The Associated Press that those detained told officials that…

SAN PEDRO, Calif.—The U.S. Coast Guard Dec. 28 announced that Southern California shoreline segments affected by an oil spill have been returned to their original condition. “The spill response will now enter a transition period; the Unified Command will monitor tarball and oiling incidents along with associated sampling results to determine the source of the oil,” according to a…