LONG BEACH, Wash. Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size ...

Cargo ships can lose anywhere from a single container to hundreds at a time in rough seas. Experts disagree on how many are lost each year. The World Shipping Council, an industry group, reports that, ...

One vessel lost 17 containers near the Nab Tower and seven containers fell from a second vessel south of St Catherine's Point ...

When shipping containers are lost overboard, “Most of them sink. And a lot of times, they’re just in really deep water,” said Jason Rolfe of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program. Most sunken containers — some ...

From January 2026, shipping companies can no longer keep container losses at sea largely out of sight. A new global rule ...