The Dutch coastguard is responding to an adrift bulk carrier that earlier collided with an oil/chemical tanker off the coast of IJmuiden, Netherlands. The unladen bulk carrier, Julietta D, was…
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On January 21, the bulk carrier Moonlight Dolphin rescued eight fishermen off the coast of Okinawa. The carrier is owned and operated by NYK, managed by ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD., and engaged in a long-term charter contract with Kobe Steel, Ltd.
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While Moonlight Dolphin was sailing from Higashi Harima port in Hyogo, Japan, to Dampier port in Australia, the vessel received a request from the Japan Coast Guard at around 9:26 a.m. to rescue fishermen in distress due to a fire on...
The crew of a Maersk Line, Limited tanker conducted a nighttime rescue of a mariner who was in the water for 24 hours after his vessel capsized in the Aegean…
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Iran’s coast guards managed to rescue 11 sailors from India. Their vessel was on the way to Oman, sank owing to poor weather. The vessel was loaded with sugar. It sank about four nm off Gabrik in southern Hormozgan, overlooking the Gulf of Oman.
Poor weather conditions have impacted not just southern Iran but Arab countries situated in the Gulf. The rainy weather, expected to last until Friday, has resulted in flash flooding in the provinces like Fars, Sistan-Baluchistan, Hormozgan, and Kerman.
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The crew of a Liberian-flagged containership rescued 19 Cubans off the Florida Keys on Friday. The crew of the MV Methoni contacted Sector Key West Command Center watchstanders at 1:40…
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The U.S. Navy rescued five men from Iran. They were suspected of smuggling drugs after they set fire to a stash onboard a traditional vessel off the Oman coast.
On Wednesday, the Navy published an aerial surveillance video depicting a conventional vessel or a dhow as it set sail in the Gulf of Oman. Those on board pour a liquid, similar to an accelerant, on the cargo hold. Smoke then poured from the vessel after those who were on the ship set a fire with a massive explosion that shook the whole...
Gulf Of Oman, Navcent Public Affairs–A U.S. Navy vessel rescued two Iranian mariners Nov. 27 from a fishing vessel after it was adrift for eight days in the Gulf of…
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A civilian vessel rescued six Indonesian crewmen after theirs had capsized Wednesday, the Malaysian Marine Department has reported. On Wednesday, the department had received a distress call regarding a ship capsizing.
Image Credits: Jabatan Laut Malaysia / Malaysia Marine Department
In their statement published on 23 September, the department announced that strong winds had forced the MV Ocean Serene to the port side. As a result, water seeped in through the ship’s transom around 7.30 pm.
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Ten Indonesian crew members had been rescued from a cargo vessel that was at risk of sinking in waters off the western coast of central Taiwan.
Image Credits: Coast Guard Administration
Coast Guard received a distress call around 6:00 a.m. that informed that a Sierra Leone-registered cargo vessel, Fu Lin 88, had run aground from a fishing port in Yunlin County, approximately 13 nautical miles offshore.
The Coast Guard has reportedly said that the vessel started tilting after water seeped into the...
US Coast Guard recently released a nail-biting video showing a maddening race to save lives aboard the Seacor Power – the vessel that capsized off the coast of Louisiana in April, taking the lives of 13 people.
The video depicts a rescue worker being suspended from a helicopter. He is seen looking for survivors in turbulent, murky waters. Endless towering waves kept battering the boat, flooding its deck.
Three men were spotted desperately holding onto the side of the 175-foot-long boat in the...