Fascinating marine rescues which have taken place, including those by the RNLI, local rescue stations and other organisations across the globe.
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 […]
Unprecedented rainfall levels, water surges and numerous flood warnings resulted in River Canal Rescue (RCR) responding to more major incidents in the first three months of this year, than it did for the whole of 2023. Between January and March 2024, its teams responded to 155 major incidents (emergency situations either involving submerged, partially sunken […]
Footage shows the moment a man and his two dogs were hoisted to safety by a US Coast Guard (USCG) helicopter off the Oregon coast after their boat started to sink. The Pacific Northwest division of the agency says its rescue teams responded to reports about a boat that had lost power and was taking […]
Three mariners stranded on a deserted remote Pacific island for over a week have been rescued, after using palm fronds to write the word ‘help’ on the beach. The US Coast Guard confirms the three fishermen were rescued on 9 April 2024, following a coordinated rescue effort from Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam and the […]
Over 100 people are understood to have died, with almost 20 still missing, after an overcrowded, makeshift ferry capsized off the coast of Nampula, northern Mozambique. Officials say the disaster happened after panic broke out after disinformation related to a cholera outbreak spread. The vessel, a converted fishing boat, was carrying around 130 people on […]
River Canal Rescue (RCR), which offers boat breakdown and recovery services across the UK’s inland waterways, reports it responded to 121 major incidents in 2023. These were emergency situations either involving submerged, partially sunken or grounded craft, plus salvage work. The figure is marginally down from the 130 incidents the company reported in 2022. Despite […]
Three Panamanian men have survived 11 days drifting in the Pacific, surviving on rainwater and coconuts that floated past. The men encountered difficulties when their engine stalled during a routine trip from Veracruz, outside Panama City, to refuel a fishing boat. “We gave it gas around 5pm, 6pm in the afternoon,” Blas Olivardia, 30, says […]
Drone manufacturer Tekever has confirmed the successful deployment of a lifeboat from its AR5 drone as part of a search and rescue exercise conducted by the Italian Coast Guard. The Portuguese company, which specialises in unmanned aerial systems, has been working in partnership with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). Sensors onboard the drone can […]
“It was a memorable working day,” says the skipper of a floating sauna after rescuing the occupants of a Tesla which’d been driven into a fjord. As the car sunk in the chilly water, the occupants clambered onto its roof until the sauna came by and offered them refuge. “It was surreal, not exactly what […]
The crew of a cruise ship has successfully rescued five fishermen who were seen in difficulty off the Indian coast on Christmas Day. The alarm was raised by passengers, who had been relaxing aboard their balcony on the Italian-flagged cruise liner Costa Serena when they saw a group of people wearing lifejackets around a mile away. […]
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 […]