Maritime history

This month an American company will begin the year-long process of removing the capsized Costa Concordia from the rocks of Giglio Island in Italy.

Researchers in Stockholm have now conducted a detailed examination of the 17th century vessel and have found new clues as to why it sank.

The captain of a cruise ship that ran aground off Italy made an “unapproved, unauthorized” deviation in course, the liner’s owners say. Host Marco Werman talks with Lauren Moore of Bowling Green, Kentucky who survived the disaster.

Simon Dring travels to Norway’s Lofoten Islands for a closer look at the local whaling industry. For residents of the islands’ small fishing villages, whaling is a valuable and sustainable part of their livelihood. Local fishermen and their families offer their perspective on new whaling restrictions, anti-whaling groups, negative stereotypes of bloodthirsty whalers, and on […]