Fascinating marine rescues which have taken place, including those by the RNLI, local rescue stations and other organisations across the globe.
British sailor Pip Hare has been rescued by the RNLI after running aground off Cornwall. “I am pretty devastated about everything that happened. I managed to sleep through a lot of alarms and run aground off the coast of Cornwall on my delivery home from the Return to Base race,” Hare says. The incident happened […]
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 […]
A 13-year-old boy has been hailed by Fowey RNLI in the UK, after his quick-thinking actions helped save his grandfather’s life. Skipper David Richards has told of the moment his grandson Henry swung into action after David fell overboard during a sailboat race off Cornwall on the UK’s south coast. On Saturday 23 September, 70-year-old […]
A sailor who lost contact with his family while sailing from New Jersey to Bermuda on a solo adventure has been rescued by the US Coast Guard, after he was spotted hundreds of miles from shore. The stranded mariner, who has not been named, was discovered nearly 300 miles off the coast of North Carolina […]
Two people have been rescued from an 18m Princess motor cruiser named Peroni, which went up in flames off the Isle of Wight on the UK’s south coast. Images taken by the RNLI capture the devastation during the blaze, which broke out on 11 November. The crew had taken to a small tender that they […]
It’s being described as a ‘juddering halt’. That’s the moment drug smugglers’ engines were taken out by commando snipers from the Royal Navy’s HMS Dauntless. The smugglers had begun to jettison their illegal cargo from their 35ft speedboat, after Dauntless crew came across them on a routine counter-narcotics patrol of the Caribbean Sea. The warship […]
A man who went missing at sea for almost two weeks has been found alive, floating in a life raft about 70 miles off Washington state, on the west coast of the US. The fisherman was spotted by a group of Canadian good Samaritans, two days after the US Coast Guard Pacific Northwest had suspended its search […]
A German sailor, Martin Daldrup, rescued from the South Atlantic has profusely thanked all those involved in the effort to save his life. The YouTuber seemingly spent 18 hours adrift from his holed Bavaria 34 Holiday, before being rescued. Daldrup has risen to fame for documenting his sailing adventures on YouTube. His book To the […]
Three South African navy personnel have died, and a senior officer is in critical condition after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off deck. The incident occurred while attempting what’s known as a vertical replenishment of supplies (where a helicopter delivers supplies) to the SAS Manthatisi. The submarine was on the ocean surface, […]
An injured crew member from the 53ft French Yacht Triana, sailing around the world in the Ocean Globe Race, has been successfully rescued after a dramatic long-range helicopter mission. The alarm was raised early on the morning of Monday (September 18 2023) when crew member Stéphane Raguenes’ condition deteriorated overnight from injuries sustained the day […]
A luxury cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew onboard has run aground in a remote stretch of Greenland, remaining stuck even after high tide. The Bahamas-flagged Norwegian ship Ocean Explorer got into trouble on Monday 11 September in Alpefjord in Northeast Greenland National Park. The vessel has not been able to free itself, according […]