Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia’s Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned and 20 others were missing.

The search for a Canadian sailor who never made it to Bermuda was suspended last night.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is shocked over reports of neglect from five African migrants who survived for three weeks in the Mediterranean Sea before being rescued by Italian authorities. Survivors told Italian authorities that up to 75 others died at sea.

The Russian navy has arrested eight men accused of hijacking the Arctic Sea freighter near Sweden and forcing the crew to sail to West Africa — the latest twist in a puzzling maritime mystery.

A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials.

Russian navy vessels were trolling the Atlantic on Thursday in search for a Maltese-flagged ship that has been missing for more than two weeks since sailing through the English Channel.

An overloaded sailboat carrying Haitian migrants sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and as many as 85 people are missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.

One person died and 29 are missing after a ship capsized and quickly sank in stormy Persian Gulf waters off the Qatari capital Doha, the vessel’s operator said.