Skimming through the Florida Everglades on an airboat is thrilling, wildly popular and occasionally deadly. Today, it’s buyer beware when signing up for an airboat tour. There’s no way to know if ...

Two airboats hauling more than 30 people combined smashed into each other Friday afternoon in the Everglades, hospitalizing 16 people, authorities said. Around 3:15 p.m., the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Thirty-three passengers in total were onboard the boats, police said. At least 16 people were hospitalized Friday afternoon after two airboats collided in Florida, investigators said. The Florida Fish ...

WAXAHACHIE (CBSDFW.COM) – Airboat operators along a stretch of the Brazos River believe it will soon be illegal to traverse portions of it in their shallow-water machines because of one wealthy ...

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 ...

Bill Daniel put his foot on the gas pedal of the 19-foot airboat and gave it a nudge. The craft’s 454-cubic-inch Chevrolet engine powered the propeller, and the 2,600-pound boat raised upward on a ...

ON ORANGE LAKE, Fla. — The moon is yellowish, a nearly full disk set high behind wispy clouds. In the tepid, inky waters of this lake in north-central Florida, the eyes of lurking alligators, hundreds ...

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (WDRB) -- Flooding in Jackson County, Indiana, is not uncommon, but recent storms have brought the worst flooding the area has seen in decades. As waters rise, airboats have become a ...

Bill Halback and Allen "Cajun" Perry share at least one thing in common: their appreciation of Orange Lake. Halback has lived in Evinston on the northwest bank of the lake since the late 1970s. From ...

Some passengers aboard were even dumped into alligator-infested waters. — -- Tourists seeking to get an up close and personal look at wildlife in Florida's Everglades National Park got a little ...

Two airboats collided with each other on a lake in Florida, injuring 13 people. The airboats crashed into one another on Monday at Wild Florida, a nature park that offers gator encounters, a safari ...