A century ago, boats were the primary mode of long-haul international travel. Today, airplanes have taken center stage as they are safe, inexpensive, and way faster than an ocean liner thanks to their ...

An electric boat just broke the all-time speed record for battery-powered watercraft, reaching a top speed of 109 mph. And while internal combustion-powered boats have long been able to surpass triple ...

More than half of all large boats traveling through Cape Cod Bay failed to comply with speed limits designed to protect critically endangered right whales, according to a new report from Oceana. The ...

Jaguar already competes in Formula E, but it couldn’t keep its racing activities confined to land. The British automaker teamed up with Vector Racing and Williams Advanced Engineering to set a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A proposed stricter speed limit to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is finding opposition from boaters ...

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA – This isn’t a cop convention. These are marine mammal biologists, but they do care about speed limits. At the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, manatee ...

New manatee protection boat speed zones won't be enforced for months in some Collier County waterways, even though a judge's ruling this week clears the way for them. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Boat speed categories are idle (2-5 mph), slow (5-7 mph), prohibited, and no entry even for fishing, wading, diving, swimming and personal watercraft.

Breaking a speed record on land is a remarkable achievement. Breaking a speed record on water ups the ante more than a few notches because it introduces a number of dangerous factors and water adds ...