Tag: Search and Rescue Operations (SAR)

According to International news, a rescue operation was under way after a Ro-Ro cargo vessel blacked out and ran aground off the coast of England.

Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), rescued four people after their boat capsized off Western Australia's north-west coast on 4th July.

On 1st July, the master of an Italian product tanker saved the lives of 70 migrants adrift in the Mediterranean, transferred the people to the tanker and took them to Italy.

According to International news, on 29th June, 82 British tourists rescued after their wooden boat caught fire near the Greek island of Rhodes. 

On 29th June, the Swedish Maritime Administration rescued a mother and her son from the water after an hour of immersion, in the Baltic Sea.

On 16th June, a merchant tanker rescued a long-distance rower who had been adrift for three weeks in a life raft in the middle of the South Pacific, far from the nearest shipping lanes.

On June 14th, a fishing boat transporting refugees hundreds of and migrants and refugees sank off Greece, resulting in 78 people dead and many missing.

A search and rescue mission is underway to salvage 11 crew members that have been missing since a vessel fire last week. 

The US Coast Guard (USCG) rescued three boaters from an oil rig after their vessel sank near Freeport, Texas on Sunday.

On May 21, 2023, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) responded to a vessel collision involving the MV St. Jhudiel and the LCT Poseidon 23 in the waters off Barangay Looc, Mandaue City, Cebu.