Displacement Matters: A large ship pushes aside a huge amount of water. The weight of this displaced water creates enough upward force to balance the ship’s weight, keeping it afloat.

Since management of ballast water discharge becomes mandatory, a ship is obliged to exchange ballast water in open ocean and as far as Put to the Test Finding a superior manner to exchange ballast ...

They’d been told the water was safe, but the Marines reached another conclusion. "The ship is actually trying to kill us," Travis Sellers, a 20-year-old lance corporal, summarized at the time.

Water is a key component of life. While humans can go much longer without food, we can't survive much more than about three days without water. Naval submarine deployments typically last three ...

Why, then, do these streams of water sometimes shoot from a tugboat when there's no fire nearby, such as when tugging a larger ship? The answer has more to do with tradition. Tugboats don't spray ...

A Marine who served on the USS Boxer during a 2016 deployment that saw the ship dump fuel, only to contaminate its own water supply, has successfully received disability compensation that ...