My wife, daughter and I love taking the boat on day-long adventures fishing, exploring, swimming, sandbaring and enjoying the water. It’s all fun and games until someone needs to use the bathroom. On ...

Accidents involving toilets typically only involve personal embarrassment, and rarely are they the cause behind the sinking of a specialized hunter-killer submarine. That's precisely what happened, ...

IN APRIL 1945, with the end of the war in sight, German U-boat 1206 was navigating the depths off the Aberdeenshire coast when disaster struck. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

1945: A malfunctioning high-tech toilet forces a German U-boat to the surface off the coast of Scotland, where it is promptly attacked by a British aircraft. The boat is scuttled as the crew abandons ...

Wealthy boaters looking for a cool pleasure craft or water taxi that will keep them comfortably out of the elements might want to check out the $150,000 Jet Capsule. The boat was unveiled back in 2013 ...

Yes, this really happened, and was an unexpected and tragic consequence of a real naval engineering problem. For years. crafty German engineers had been busy developing what they thought was the next ...

Green builder Adam Katzman wanted to experiment with building a "constructed wetland" to process sewage. Then he wanted to make the whole thing float. His paddle-boat-toilet, parked at a marina in ...