The morning started somewhat foggy as Laureen and I climbed aboard the large passenger boat operated by Island Packers out of the Ventura Harbor. “Rather foggy this morning,” I said while grabbing ...

The swell was pushing in from one side then bouncing off the cliff walls and ricocheting back, making our kayak bounce around like we were in a washing machine. Our group of four kayaks was more than ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Several victims of a boat fire that occurred near the Santa Cruz Islands in Southern California have been identified as Northern California residents. From Santa Cruz to Fremont, ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Volunteers across local organizations and businesses helped clean nearly 5,800 pounds of waste from the Chinese Harbor on Santa Cruz Island on Monday. Below is a press release ...

OXNARD, Calif. -- Twenty-five bodies have now been located while nine remain missing and five people were rescued after a boat erupted in flames off the coast of Ventura County, California early ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and a Good Samaritan rescued 14 people who abandoned a sinking ship after it struck a rock and began taking on water near Santa Cruz Island early Thursday morning. By Saturday, ...

You don’t have to travel to the South Pacific to entertain dreams of desert islands. There’s a chain of uninhabited islands — Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara and San Miguel — just off ...

Because there are so many different kinds of passenger vessels, the critical topic of passenger safety can sometimes appear as a set of niche topics, each one just distantly connected to another.