Latest Oceans News

A Bulgarian shipping company denies its vessel sabotaged a Baltic Sea cable

Jan. 27, 2025 10:55 AM EST

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland. Swedish prosecutors announced on Sunday night that they had launched a...

Gulf of Whatnow? Trump's geographic renaming plans leave mapmakers pondering what to do next

Jan. 23, 2025 17:23 PM EST

What's in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers whether it’s called the Gulf of Mexico, as it has been for four centuries, or the Gulf of America, as President Donald Trump...