VIRGINIA, USA — Tangier Island sits in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay between the Eastern Shore and the Northern Neck of Virginia, accessible only by boat or a small plane. Everyone knows ...

Four people, including a child, were rescued Sunday from a sinking boat at Thimble Shoal South Island, also known as First Island, near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Three adults and a child were saved from a sinking vessel Sunday at Thimble Shoal South Island near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. According to a news release ...

or First Island, and drifting towards the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The Coast Guard lost contact with the boat but a good Samaritan was able to establish contact with them and provided the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard rescued four people, including a child, from a sinking vessel by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Sunday afternoon. The rescue happened after someone on board ...

A study is underway to see if a plan to shore up a disappearing island ... the Chesapeake Bay to rise. Ever since the glaciers receded, the land that was once pushed up has been slowly sinking.

Sea level rise caused by global warming is threatening the existence of the tiny community of Tangier Island, Virginia, located in Chesapeake Bay ... the combination of sinking land and rising ...

A father and son working a crab boat in Chesapeake Bay were caught in a rising storm ... while the isolated community of Tangier Island quickly launched a desperate bid to rescue two of their ...

Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources partnered with TowBoatUS to sink a 52-foot cement boat in the Chesapeake Bay just north of Kent Island’s Love Point. We had some questions about that—here’s ...

Erosion and land subsidence (sinking ... throughout the Bay,” said Matt Whitbeck, a wildlife biologist with Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Complex. “Islands are especially ...