Latest news stories from coastguards around the world.
Read and watch many rescues involving coastguards – from yachts, islands, rowing boats and more. Plus articles about coastguard warnings and new equipment.
Cadets sailing on a Texan training vessel have received a first-hand lesson in the laws of the sea, after coming across a small vessel disabled and in distress. While travelling from Texas to Florida aboard TS Kennedy, Texas A&M Maritime Academy cadets William Flores and Kai Ethridge spotted a stricken vessel in the Gulf of […]
The US Coastguard’s aviation life support equipment technical services office has selected the patented ThrowRaft TD2401 as a critical throwable self-inflating device to be kept on its helicopters. The patented ThrowRaft TD2401, made by marine safety and rescue equipment manufacturer ThrowRaft, has undergone rigorous testing and evaluations through the coastguard approval process. The ThrowRaft TD2401 […]
US Coast Guard aircrews have rescued a sole sailor from a sailing vessel that was taking on water approximately 170 nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. US citizen Neil Treitman, 69, was transiting aboard the 46-foot sailing catamaran Sailicity from Nassau, Bahamas to Tortola, British Virgin Islands, when the vessel started taking on water […]
A solo sailor onboard a critically damaged yacht, around 600 nautical miles out at sea, was saved as part of a two-day rescue operation led by HM Coastguard. In the midst of Storm Ciarán, which battered northern Europe in November, the vessel had lost its mast and was taking on water. An initial beacon alert […]
HM Coastguard in the UK is urging paddleboarders to be prepared and stay safe before and during their time on the water, after a day of multiple callouts and lives at risk. On Thursday (17 August 2023) coastguard rescue teams and RNLI lifeboats dealt with incidents involving paddleboards and inflatables all over Wales and northwest […]
An agreement has been signed to make it easier for HM Coastguard search and rescue helicopters to respond to requests to transport seriously ill or injured adult patients between NHS hospitals in England. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will see coastguard helicopters take patients between hospitals across west and south-west England. The collaboration between the […]
An army veteran who had been hoping to break a world record for living on a barren rock in the Atlantic has been rescued by the coastguard after sending a distress call. Chris ‘Cam’ Cameron, 53, who works as a teacher, had been attempting to live alone on Rockall, an uninhabitable granite islet in the […]
Passersby saved the life of a girl who was at risk of drowning in a rough sea at Bridlington last Sunday (7 May 2023). Video shared on Facebook by Ksenia Wright was simply captioned: “My dad’s a hero – saved a girl today.” In the footage, four people can be seen throwing a lifebelt to […]
HM Coastguard has launched a new website to promote the service as one of the UK’s four emergency services, in response to a startling lack of awareness. Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) research shows more than 50 per cent of UK citizens do not know to call 999 in the event of a coastal emergency […]
A sailor has been rescued from the Atlantic Ocean, two days after his yacht lost its mast in stormy conditions. HM Coastguard’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) received two distress beacon alerts from the yacht, which was drifting 700 miles west of Ireland, on Friday evening (14 October). The vessel had extensive damage and was […]
British Marine, the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are hosting a free 30-minute webinar to help individuals and businesses find out more about the future arrangements for the disposal of maritime pyrotechnics. The webinar will be on 13 October at 5pm (GMT+1). Registration for the webinar is available now […]