A French sailor’s attempt to make a solo journey from New York to the United Kingdom was cut short early Monday when his boat began sinking, prompting the Coast Guard to rescue the man just off the Atlantic City coast. According to the U.C. Coast Guard, Olivier Jehl was about 90 miles from Atlantic City [...]
Three people have been rescued off the coast of Clogherhead after the boat they were travelling in sank. The incident happened on Sunday morning when the coastguard received a distress message from a trawler about 20 miles to the east of the village. The coastguard were alerted to the incident after the Emergency Positioning Indication [...]
KAILUA-KONA — A U.S. citizen and two Indonesian nationals were safe Friday after abandoning ship 161 miles southwest of Kona. “It was really a great joint rescue,” said Tara Molle, a petty officer 2nd class with the U.S. Coast Guard, on the multiple agency rescue that found the men in healthy condition floating in a [...]
The United States Coast Guard rescued two fishermen early Monday after their 37-foot boat sank 52 miles northwest of Boca Grande early Monday. According to the Coast Guard, at 2:27 a.m. Monday watchstanders from Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received multiple Mayday calls via marine radio VHF-FM channel 16 from David Gilliland, the captain of [...]
Four men have been rescued in Bass Strait by a fishing vessel after their yacht sank near King Island, north-west of Tasmania. The men, from Victoria and Western Australia, used an EPIRB to make a distress call to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority about 2:00am. Acting Inspector Darren Woolley said the yacht hit a rocky [...]
A LONE fisherman stranded overnight in a small boat 150km east of Mackay was spotted from the air by RACQ CQ Rescue early this morning. The rescue helicopter was tasked to a search and rescue mission at first light after the fisherman was reported missing by his primary vessel about midnight. About 5am when RACQ-CQ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
