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 ...

Passengers and crew of the sinking vessel Sea Jay climb into a deployed life raft as a Good Samaritan vessel, the Sea Biscuit, arrives to assist them early Thursday morning. The Sea Biscuit responded ...

A salvage team has refloated a charter fishing vessel that sank near California's Santa Cruz Island. Overseen by the U.S. Coast Guard and the California Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR), ...

Fourteen people were rescued in the early hours on Thursday after a charter sport-fishing boat struck a rock and began sinking near Santa Cruz Island, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. At about 2:30 ...

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.

A proposal to expand and create new, no-take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Santa Cruz County that was heard at the Feb. 14–15 Fish and Game Commission meeting ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A proposal to expand 'no fishing' zones in the Santa Barbara Channel is creating a slow wake of controversy. Word is getting out across the Santa Barbara Harbor. "This would ...

Passengers and crew of the sinking vessel Sea Jay climb into a deployed life raft as a Good Samaritan vessel, the Sea Biscuit, arrives to assist them on Thursday, June 15, 2023. The Sea Biscuit ...

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 ...

On Monday, May 13, 2024, twenty-nine volunteers, fishermen, and representatives from local organizations and businesses cleared approximately 5,763 pounds of trash and debris from Chinese Harbor on ...