Brazilians celebrated the Goddess of the Sea, Yemanja, in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, offering flowers and small boats with gifts into the ocean in exchange for blessings in the coming year. Hundreds of faithful of the Afro-Brazilian...

English/Nat Authorities investigating the crash of TWA flight 800 still haven't yet discovered the cause of the explosion. The search for remains is continuing off Long Island, New York. But hopes of locating the plane's fuselage at...

The President of the Marshall Islands said on Sunday he hopes to have the opportunity to meet Jose Alvarenga, the Salvadoran man who says he spent more than a year drifting across the Pacific Ocean before making landfall in the Marshall...

China said on Tuesday that it was keeping close contact with Indonesia regarding the search and recovery mission for the downed Air Asia flight. Hua Chunying, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson told reporters at a regular...

HEADLINE: U.S. teen sailor reunited with brother CAPTION: Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland has been reunited with her brother, after her solo around-the-world journey ended when her boat fell apart in a southern Ocean...

A former Halliburton manager apologized to his family and friends Tuesday before a federal judge sentenced him to one year of probation for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico....

A New Zealand military plane scanning an area of the Indian Ocean for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 spotted several objects floating in the sea on Saturday, including two that bore colours of the missing jet. It was not...

HEADLINE: Coast Guard Sinks Tsunami Ghost Ship CAPTION: A U.S. Coast Guard cutter unleashed cannon fire on an abandoned Japanese ship on Thursday, ending a journey that began when last year's tsunami dislodged the 164-foot ship and set...

English/Nat In the middle of a crowded hotel lobby, Beth Cappadora (MICHELLE PFEIFFER) looks away from her three young children just for a moment, and in that split second, every parent's nightmare comes true. "THE DEEP END OF THE...

Efforts continue to contain oil leak from sunken rig Gulf of Mexico - 26 April 2010 1. Various aerial shots of oil from rig and a fleet of boats around the spill Gulf of Mexico - 21 April 2010 2. Flames and smoke billowing from rig,...

Spanish/Nat A group of Peruvian shamans have arrived at the site of a recent plane crash south of Lima to call on the spirits of the sea to return the unrecovered bodies of the victims. The witch doctors brought offerings of flowers,...

Entertainment US Ocean''s Twelve - All-star cast of heist sequel talk to APTN L.A., November 2004 1. SOUNDBITE George Clooney: (on the exotic location) "Well it helps when your production company is putting the film up. They were like,...

1. Zoom out to a wide of the fins dug into the sand 2. Pan down from buildings to fins 3. Various of organisers and people attending the demonstration 4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Paulo Guilherme Alves Cavalcanti, Project Coordinator...

HEADLINE: 4 dead, 3 missing in waters off New York CAPTION: The search for a 10-year-old girl in the waters off Coney Island has been suspended. She is one of three swimmers still missing from powerful ocean currents at New York area...

Copenghagen - 11 December 2009 1. Various of Kirabati dancer Pelenise Alofa dancing at a presentation inside the conference venue organised by the Climate Action Network Australia and Pacific Calling Partnership 2. SOUNDBITE (English)...

AP Television Mentawai Islands, 9-12 February 2012 1. Wide shot of men working on boat's deck as it is cruising the ocean. 2. Close up shot of waves splatter to camera. 3. Medium of men sitting by boat's edge. 4. Wide shot of men jump...