Navy punishes commander of USS Port Royal, warship that ran aground on reef off Hawaii

October 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Microbes are being used to clear an oil spill caused by a ship that sank last month off the Paradip port in Orissa, a senior port official said Friday. The microbes are a kind of bacteria which live on oil.

October 4th, 2009 3 dead, 3 seriously injured in NY boat accidentWANTAGH, N.Y. — Three people were killed and three others seriously injured after their 40-foot boat ran aground in marshland off New York's Long Island.

September 25th, 2009 Walsh is new US Pacific Fleet commanderPEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Adm. Patrick M. Walsh has taken over as the commander of the U.S.

September 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Indian Navy Friday launched the country's second indigenously built stealth warship INS Kochi. The 6,800-tonne destroyer, built by the Mazagaon Docks Ltd (MDL), was ceremoniously launched by Madhulika Verma, wife of Naval chief Admiral Nirmal Verma.

August 2nd, 2009 Hawaii protecting coral reefs with big finesHONOLULU — Wrecking coral will cost you in Hawaii. A Maui tour company is paying the state nearly $400,000 for damaging more than 1,200 coral colonies when one of its boats sank at Molokini, a pristine reef and popular diving spot.

July 30th, 2009 Boeing unveils new Navy patrol jetRENTON, Wash. — Boeing Co.

July 30th, 2009 Navy: Almost finished repairing grounded shipHONOLULU — The Navy says it's almost finished repairing the $1 billion guided missile cruiser than ran aground earlier this year on a reef off Oahu. The U.S. Pacific Fleet said Wednesday the repair costs are reaching the high end of the $25 million to $40 million range it estimated shortly after the February grounding.

July 29th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A two-day drill spearheaded by the Indian Navy started off the Orissa coast Wednesday to assess the effectiveness of coastal security, an official said. The state police, Central Industrial Security Force, port, custom and fisheries officials and private security agencies posted at the ports and industrial establishments are also taking part in the drill.

July 13th, 2009 Boat runs aground off Liberty Island; 8 rescuedNEW YORK — A boat has run aground and taken on water near the Statue of Liberty. All eight people aboard have been rescued.

June 4th, 2009 Timely fish tale: Hawaii fish coughs up gold watchELEELE, Hawaii — Hawaii resident Curt Carish boasts a timely fish tale: a 10-inch reef fish he caught by hand in shallow water coughed up a ticking gold watch. Carish says he was enjoying a picnic Wednesday on Port Allen beach when he saw the nenue fish awkwardly swimming close to shore.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Navy's warship INS Talwar has thwarted a piracy attempt against a merchant vessel carrying Indian crew in the Gulf of Aden and nabbed six pirates, a naval official said here Friday. INS Talwar Thursday afternoon received a distress call from a Liberian flag vessel MV Maud that eight pirates were approaching the ship in a skiff.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Underlining its increasing strategic prowess, the Indian Navy has for the first time embarked on a two month-long deployment to the Atlantic Ocean, where it will participate in separate war games with the British and French navies. Since World War I, the Atlantic Ocean has been the stage for strategic warfare for navies the world over.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was an anti-piracy operation with a twist in the tale: Instead of arresting the eight brigands who were attempting to board a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, Indian Navy commandos seized their weapons, emptied their skiff of its fuel and set it adrift, leaving the tidying up to another warship. About 225 nautical miles east of Aden Thursday, as visibility dropped to less than two nautical miles, the guided missile stealth frigate INS Talwar that is currently patrolling the piracy-infested Gulf of Aden received a distress call from the Liberian-registered MV Maud, with 10 Indian crew on board, saying a skiff with eight armed men on board was approaching at high speed, an official here said Friday.

May 4th, 2009 Russian ship frees Iranians seized with piratesMOSCOW — Iran's embassy in Moscow says a Russian warship has freed eight Iranians who were seized along with suspected Somali pirates last week. The embassy says the Iranians had been held captive by the pirates for almost three months, and has praised the Russian Navy for the rescue.

April 30th, 2009 US hands pirates' bodies over to Somali officialsMOGADISHU, Somalia — American naval forces handed Somali authorities the bodies of three suspected pirates on Thursday, officials said, after U.S. snipers shot the trio earlier this month during a standoff over an American hostage.