Image credit: Baros Maldives Coming up from underwater, there is a true feeling of discovering an oasis in the middle of the ocean, which is exactly what each island resort in the Maldives offers.

A portion of a pier in northern California's Santa Cruz collapsed into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, sending three city workers into the sea after high surf slammed the coast. The Wharf, a public pier, ...

Two people were rescued and a third swam to safety after a California pier under construction partially collapsed and fell into the ocean Monday ... was pounded by heavy surf from a major storm ...