— -- The Walla Walla ferry can carry a maximum of 2,000 passengers on its run 10 times daily between Kingston and Edmonds, Wash., but it has life rafts for only 600 people if they must abandon ...

Commercial fishermen scrambling to buy life rafts for their boats this winter can rest a little easier. Congress has changed a new law that would have required life rafts for fishing boats traveling ...

In the 1950s, use of inflatable life rafts became widespread in the maritime community, when large ships began to carry them as spare survival crafts. These early inflatable rafts could automatically ...

After 30 years of earning paychecks on the water, I’ve realized that Murphy’s law is, well, overly optimistic: If something can go wrong, it will. And when it does, it’s ­usually at the worst possible ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Four boaters are back on solid ground after they had to be rescued from a life raft off the coast of St. Petersburg. The U.S. Coast Guard 7th District says 42-year-old Matt ...