Tag: search and rescue

UK MCA issued a Marine Guidance Note highlighting issues to be taken into consideration when assessing the impact on navigational safety and emergency response (search and rescue, salvage and towing, and counter pollution) caused by offshore renewable energy installation developments.

The 8th session of the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue (NCSR) took place virtually on 19-23 April 2021. Among others, the meeting finalized work on the modernization of the requirements for the GMDSS.

Three crew members have died and several remain missing after a cargo ship ran aground in waters off Surigao del Norte amid a typhoon, according to the Philippine Coast Guard. 

The US Coast Guard announced on Monday it is suspending its search for the eight remaining missing Seacor Power lift boat crewmembers, 8 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. 

The US Coast Guard and multiple good Samaritan vessels rescued six people from a capsized commercial vessel on April 13, and are now searching for more 8 miles south of Port Fourchon.

A total of 12 crew members onboard the Dutch general cargo ship EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA were safely evacuated, after the vessel developed a heavy list off Norway, Monday. 

The US Coast Guard has publicly released two studies completed by the USCG Research & Development Center as related to Enhanced Person in the Water (ePIW) Detection location devices and daytime distress signal devices.

Despite progress in attracting women into the maritime search and rescue (SAR) sector, more still needs to be done, according to the results of an IMRF survey unveiled on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. 

The US Coast Guard medevaced a 27-year-old man from a container ship about 46 miles west of San Luis Obispo, California, on Friday. The captain of the motor vessel Hyundai Jupiter contacted requested assistance for a crew member who reportedly suffered injuries from a 16-foot fall onboard. 

On February 17, the dredger Margrethe Fighter capsized at the Port of Trelleborg, Sweden. After the vessel capsized, one crewmember was reported as missing and is now presumed dead.