Europe's leading in-water exhibition, the Cannes International Boat and Yacht Show is a unique event offering boat show enthusiasts the opportunity to preview the finest vessels of the sea.

This year the Cannes International Boat and Yacht Show will be celebrating its 33rd anniversary.

Anglers had a larger area to go trolling for fish over the Labor Day weekend. Fortunately, 8,000 square miles of federal fishing waters have been reopened, allowing one of our area's largest fish tournaments to get underway.

This year's Mobile Big Game Fishing Clubs Labor Day Tournament saw Jim Cox and his team score the most points by catching and releasing the most fish.

On Sunday, 17 year old wakeboarding enthusiast Edward Bosson has successfully completed the excruciating 21 mile trek between England and France on his board. Bosson, a College student at Radley, who is currently studying for his A-levels, achieved the feat from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez in just over two hours.

Despite falling off his wakeboard 14 times, the teen is now set to be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for his achievement.

Seaview, a leader in the design and manufacturing of mounting solutions for marine electronics is delighted to announce its launching of rail mounting solutions to complete its extensive pod line, Seaview Sail Pods by PYI.

Created to house and protect sail boat steering equipment while providing convenient viewing, the multifaceted new Sail Pods are featured in four different sizes to fit popular marine instrument displays along with face-plates that can be custom pre-cut to order.

The city of St. Petersburg is requesting development proposals in an effort to create a mega yacht and research vessel marina downtown. The mega yacht marina would be situated in the Port of St. Petersburg, which is south of downtown, adjacent to the University of South Florida campus and the Albert Whitted general aviation airport.

USF's College of Marine Science currently operates two research vessels out of Bayboro Harbor, where the proposed marina would be located.

The annual luxury-festival known as the Lido Yacht Expo will be getting underway in Newport Harbor in just a few weeks in celebration of its 32nd year. According to boat show organizer Duncan McIntosh, the highly anticipated expo brings in the well-to-do from all over Southern California who are possibly looking to add a new boat to their existing fleet or replace an aging one.

However, there's plenty to amaze young boating enthusiasts with the ambition of one day owning a boat.

The Coast Guard urges boaters to monitor weather broadcasts and be aware of current storm updates.

One of the world's most luxurious private yachts, the 126-metre-long mega-yacht called "Octopus" was recently reported to have made an unexpected appearance in the High Arctic hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, on its way through the Northwest Passage.

The yacht was said to have been anchored for five days last week offshore from Pond Inlet, a remote community on the northern tip of Baffin Island.

Gulf Coast residents are breathing a sigh of relief today after yesterday's explosion and fire at an oil and gas production rig 100 miles off the Louisiana coast, an incident that initially sparked fears that the environmental and economic crisis oppressing the region in the wake of the BP catastrophe was about to become worse.

According to the coast guard, none of the 13 workers aboard Mariner Energy's rig was seriously injured, the fire has been extinguished, and early reports of a mile-long oil sheen from the area turned out to be wrong information.

The storms activities made its closest pass to the Outer Banks of North Carolina early Friday morning at a distance of approximately 85 miles, keeping hurricane force winds offshore.