The sailboat had seen better days. Sitting in the water at Hilton Head’s Cross Island Boat Landing, it’s brown with rust and mud. The boat’s mast pokes above the water as cars rushed across the the ...

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 ...

More than a dozen abandoned boats were airlifted by a helicopter off an uninhabited island in Washington state's Puget Sound for an operation funded by a federal grant. Blast at a Tennessee explosives ...

Removing shipwrecked, abandoned or deserted boats from Bluffton waterways will now be a coordinated effort between the town, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and nearby jurisdictions ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WTOC) - The Town of Hilton Head has announced that it has removed 11 abandoned and derelict boats from its waterway. Officials say there is still a lot of work to do to clean ...

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - Crews in Georgetown County removed 11 boats from the waterway on Monday. A team effort on Monday by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, along with ...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH (WGNO) — A $1 million project will remove abandoned boats from St. Tammany waterways, according to St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2026, 16 sunken ...

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GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Monday, crews with Wounded Nature- Working Veterans, and the Department of Natural Resources worked to remove 11 abandoned boats from Georgetown waters. According to ...

Every year, thousands risk the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, aiming for Italy and a chance at a new life in Europe. Many land off the island of Lampedusa, abandoning their boats offshore.