As warm weather lures more boaters out to the water, one way for passengers to stay safe is to pack GPS or radio-tracking systems. Then, if a vessel capsizes far from shore or anyone gets swept ...

If you use your boat on open waters, there could be a chance that your smartphone won’t be able to connect to Wi-Fi. While out on the open waters, you might not be able to access GPS. Instead of being ...

It was at one of those stand-around functions where people make small talk to keep from falling asleep, when a woman mentioned that her family had just bought a big boat and were having a heck of a ...

More than 1,300 federally permitted charter boat owners in the Gulf of Mexico are suing the federal government in a class-action lawsuit over an effort to force them to purchase GPS systems to track ...

Phantom ships that appear to be sailing in circles off the coast of San Francisco have been discovered by an analyst examining vessel tracking data. Bjorn Bergman, from SkyTruth and Global Fishing ...