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This undated image provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. Rescuers are racing against time to find the missing submersible carrying five people, who were reported overdue Sunday night. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)

Tourist sub’s implosion draws attention to murky regulations of deep-sea expeditions

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

A North Atlantic right whale dives on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, Monday, March 27, 2023. Scientists on a research vessel from the International Fund for Animal Welfare watch in the background. The drive to protect vanishing whales has brought profound impacts to marine industries, and those changes are accelerating as the Endangered Species Act approaches its 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, NOAA permit # 21371)

Landmark law saved whales through marine industries change

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

This photograph provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows an endangered North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing rope being sighted with a newborn calf on Dec. 2, 2021, in waters near Cumberland Island, Ga. A federal circuit court has reinstated a ban on lobster fishing gear in a nearly 1,000-square-mile area off New England on Wednesday July 13, 2022 to try to protect endangered whales. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued new regulations last year that prohibited lobster fishing with vertical buoy lines in part of the fall and winter in the area. The ruling was intended to prevent North Atlantic right whales, which number less than 340, from becoming entangled. (Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via AP)

Ships must slow down more often to save whales, feds say

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Shipping industry proposes fund to tackle carbon emissions

Associated Press

A protester holds a slogan during a rally outside the Chinese Consulate in the financial district of Makati, metropolitan Manila, Philippines to mark Independence Day on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. The Philippine defense secretary says an anchored Filipino fishing boat has sunk in the disputed South China Sea after being hit by a suspected Chinese vessel which then abandoned the 22 Filipino crewmen. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines protests sinking of boat in disputed waters

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2007, file photo, people walk past the dead body of a whale in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, an unusual alliance has been forged: conservationists and shipping companies have aligned in a bid to move one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, to save the blue whales often spotted feeding there. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Alliance to save blue whales from ships stalled by Sri Lanka

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Finnish startup company Norsepower installed its rotor sail technology on the Maersk Pelican tanker, Aug. 29, 2018, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in the first such installation on a tanker as the shipping industry tries new solutions in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The Maersk Pelican oil tanker is testing Norsepower’s 30 meter (98 foot) deck-mounted spinning columns, which convert wind into thrust based on an idea first floated nearly a century ago. Transport’s contribution to earth-warming emissions are the subject of investigations as negotiators gather in Katowice, Poland, for U.N. COP24 climate talks. (Casper Hariot/Maersk Tankers via AP)

Sails make a comeback as shipping tries to go green

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press