Multiple people were rescued after an airboat overturned in the Florida Everglades in western Miami-Dade when the operator, who was later arrested, made a sharp turn to see an alligator. The incident ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Forget the need for a siren. You’ll definitely hear the 502-horsepower fan coming as the Grand Rapids Fire Department’s newest rescue tool comes roaring up the Grand River ...

"The boat was wrecked, water was coming in, kids were screaming," Alyssa Windom said of the Dec. 13 incident in reports Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment ...

Mauricio Maldonado is a digital editor for CBS Miami and has been a digital journalist in the South Florida area since 1997. Mauricio started at the Miami Herald in 1990 and transitioned over to their ...

Eleven people were rescued after an airboat capsized off the Outer Banks on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A Dare County, North Carolina, dispatcher alerted Coast Guard Sector North ...

JEFFERSON, La. (WGNO) — An airboat crash has left one person dead, and two others injured. The Coast Guard says the airboat ran into a cable that was connected to a barge. It happened around 10:30 on ...

An airboat is a fiberglass or aluminum boat with a flat bottom used to navigate marshes, swamps, low, grassy waters. It also can go over land and ice. Airboats are propelled by a large fan – an ...

Hunter Geisel is a digital producer at CBS Miami. Hunter has previously produced digital content for local and national outlets, covering several topics from breaking news and current events to ...

After a crash in Ochopee in The Everglades less than a week ago, many people are asking: What is an airboat? How does it operate? How fast can it go? Is it safe? We have the answers, and here's what ...

It would be a rare sight to spot an airboat equipped with a machine harvesting wild rice on northern Minnesota water. That’s because such a harvesting method is prohibited by tribal and state law. But ...