Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the ...

Some seafaring terms are as out-of date as wooden pilot's wheels and using the stars and birds for navigation. What is a poop deck, and what does it do?

But the $4.5 billion ship wasn’t the only remarkable spectacle that day: An unconventional pilot wearing a jet engine-powered suit launched himself into the air for a celebratory flyover.

Navigating the Suez Canal is a high-stress, complicated feat that requires master piloting skills. To demonstrate, we worked with Master Mariner Andy Winbow and Captain Yash Gupta to produce this ...