At the end of a tour in Hawaii, Jimmy Buffett announced he was planning to open a club in Key West. In 1986, Buffett brought ...

Cruise liners and cargo ships look top-heavy, yet they glide through storms without tipping—how? The secret lies in their design, ballast systems, and invisible forces keeping them balanced.

This is the brutal account of a Soviet nuclear submarine that turned into a burning steel trap hundreds of meters underwater. A simple malfunction in the ballast system caused oil to spray onto a ...