What two fishing buddies initially thought was a whale turned out to be a capsized fishing boat that a man had been using to stay above the water as he tried to attract attention from passing vessels.

A man in a shallow 12-foot fishing boat that ended up taking on water was found alive over the weekend after having spent nearly two days on the ocean off Florida, officials said.

The man said he’d been sitting on the hull of the capsized boat for about an hour, drifting away from land and other boats. It was about 4 p.m. — and darkness was soon approaching.

Scientists at Othram, which is based in Texas, used the man's DNA to develop “a comprehensive DNA profile” and brought ...

In the early 1990s, I had a tiny two-man fishing boat containing a small deck welded to a pair of small pontoons. I powered it with a 3-horsepower Tanaka outboard.

The man told the fishermen his boat capsized before he could get a call out for help and said his phone fell into the water. He said he had been trying to wave down other boaters for about an hour ...

Erbaugh said the man from the fishing boat stayed on scene and was cooperating with authorities. Authorities were searching for a man who fell into Lake Tyler after a boat crash on Saturday, and two ...

Rescue teams successfully recovered the body of a 63-year-old man, Merl McVay, from Lake Michigan. McVay was one of the two individuals who died when a fishing boat capsized.

The two victims were identified as a man, 50, and woman, 51, both from Illinois, authorities said. ... Two die after 17-foot fishing boat overturns in Lake Michigan near Port Washington.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the 30-foot boat, a Grady-White, was on a recreational fishing trip when it began to take on water near Breezy Point around noon Sunday.