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 ...

Martina Birnbaum/Getty A pregnant woman has broken her tailbone while 13 others have been hospitalized in a crash involving two airboats in the Florida Everglades. The Greater Naples Fire Rescue ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. — Two airboats collided with each other Friday afternoon in southwest Florida, injuring more than a dozen people, officials said. The airboats were carrying a total of 33 people ...

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 ...