A message in a bottle found on a Potato Point beach has sparked an air search between Broulee Island, Bermagui and Montague Island. Eden water authorities acting senior sergeant Steve Winslow stated the message was dated January 2 and was found on Monday morning by campers. It read "enough food for 2 days, out of [...]
Three individuals saved after a fishing vessel struck rocks in Northland. At 0351 hours today a distress was heard on VHF Channel 16 from a 12m long line charter vessel stating they had struck rocks in the Bay of Islands location. Quickly after contact through VHF Radio was lost with the vessel nevertheless an EPIRB [...]
The search is back on for four Urlings men missing at sea since Wednesday night. The acting head of the Coast Guard, Lieutenant Commander Elroy Skerrit said the Regional Security Systems aircraft would have continued the search Sunday afternoon in hopes the men would be found. “We are basically projecting where the vessel or debris [...]
A man has been rescued after being found hypothermic in the waters off Great Barrier Island. "This is an example of how the unexpected can happen so quickly out on the water", said Mark Leevers, Coastguard Duty Officer. "The man was prepared in that he was wearing his lifejacket and had recently purchased flares and [...]
Four men - aged 41, 43, 32 and 30 - were rescued after their boat capsized and sank off Falcon recently. It is understood one of the occupants of the 6m cabin cruiser activated an EPIRB attached to a lifejacket about 9.50pm. Mandurah Volunteer Marine Rescue and a police helicopter reached them an hour and a [...]
MIAMI — A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued four men southeast of Great Inagua, Bahamas, from their life raft after their vessel sank Friday. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 7th District command center received a distress signal from an emergency positioning indicating radio beacon (EPRIB) originating 50 nautical miles southeast of Bahamas. The watchstanders launched a deployed [...]
A couple of fishermen were rescued after spending two hours adrift in the ocean after their boat sank. The men were returning to Mackay Harbor after a morning fishing trip when the boat was swamped by a wave, took on water ans sank quickly. They were able to activate their EPIRB as the vessel sank. [...]
A fast-thinking tugboat crew and an EPIRB are credited for saving the life of a boater sinking off the coast of the Dominican Republic. John McCoy said he was prepared with the right equipment when his boat started sinking, and a tug boat crew happened to be in the right place at the right time to [...]
Rescue services would have arrived sooner to help a trawler sinking off the north Northumberland coast last year had it been equipped with a GPS enabled EPIRB, a report has said. The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is circulating a safety flyer to fishing vessels to provide lessons learned from its investigation of the capsize and [...]
Sean McGuigan and Andrew Warner are planning to row 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua to raise cash for local charities The Alzheimer’s Society and St Clare’s Hospice. But upon making final inspections Mr. McGuigan noticed that his EPIRB beacon had been stolen. The beacon is an important safety device for the ocean crossing and [...]
