Tag: search and rescue operation

An operation to rescue MV Pangaon Express started on 16th July, 10 days after it sank in heavy waves in the Bay of Bengal on 6th July, while en route from Chittagong to Pangaon Inland Container Terminal in Keraniganj.

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.

Early Friday morning, a desperate rescue mission was undertaken to save 26 fishermen when their fishing vessel caught fire in the waters south of Cape Town, South Africa.

Last week, EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) announced that it has deployed remotely piloted aircraft services over the Gulf of Genova for increased maritime surveillance in support of the Italian Coast Guard.

Mrs. Caroline Jupe, the new CEO of the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) refers to the key findings from latest IMRF campaign - the #WomeninSAR initiative, highlighting there is need for concerted effort from all industry stakeholders to address key barriers that the campaign acknowledged.