LOS ANGELES – An anchored cargo ship in the Pacific is not a fixed point — it's different than parking a car. Even then, with a multi-ton anchor and brawny steel chains resting on the seabed ...

Extrapolating further, they estimated that anchoring container ships ravage between 6,000 and 20,500 square kilometers of coastal seafloor each year, uprooting all sorts of marine life and degrading ...

Investigators believe a 1,200-foot cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line.

A ship's anchor could be the reason behind an oil spill near a port complex in Los Angeles and Huntington Beach, leaving several boats waiting to unload. The spill, which resulted in more than ...

Instead, the ship kept to a semicircular pattern that would be expected of an anchored ship moved by wind and current. That distance, Amos said, makes it unlikely that its anchor could be the culprit.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A ship's anchor may have hooked, dragged and torn an underwater pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean off Southern California ...

A probe is continuing into what caused an offshore pipeline break that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Southern California.