While most of the shipping in the world happens via sea, what happens when the massive containers fall overboard? Where do they eventually end up?

Dozens of shipping containers took a tumble, falling over the side of a cargo ship and into Southern California waters on Tuesday, Sept. 9. The containers, about 75 of them, were stacked on the ...

The Port of Long Beach, California viewed from a distance On Tuesday, September 9, at least 75 shipping containers fell off the cargo ship, the Mississippi, when unloading its cargo at the Port of ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Work was underway Wednesday to salvage and clean up dozens of shipping containers that fell off a cargo vessel at the Port of Long Beach. About 75 containers fell from the ...

As salvage work began to recover dozens of shipping containers that fell from a cargo vessel this week at the Port of Long Beach, POLB and other officials gathered on Wednesday, Sept. 10, to provide ...

A P&O Cruises ship sat overnight in the port of Southampton, U.K., before local maritime authorities cleared its departure on Sunday afternoon arnival Corporation & PLC.; Jamie Lashmar/PA Images via ...

On Tuesday, September 9, over 60 shipping containers fell from the ZIM vessel Mississippi into the water at Pier G in the Port of Long Beach. While the incident resulted in no injuries, the accident ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...