Lifesaving Incidents

By Jatindra Dash, Nidhi Verma and Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters) – India’s Coast Guard and Navy continued search-and-rescue

By Nidhi Verma, Saurabh Sharma and Jatindra Dash Aug 22 (Reuters) – India’s maritime rescue agency lost communication on Saturday with a

HONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching on Sunday for 17 people still missing after a Vietnamese ship sank in the busy waterway of the

Fifteen migrants died when their overloaded boat collided with a Greek Coast Guard vessel off Chios Tuesday evening. The boat was carrying at least 39

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 (Reuters) – A boat carrying members of the Rohingya community from Myanmar has sunk near the Thai-Malaysian border,

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 27 (Reuters) – Thirteen people were confirmed dead with dozens more missing after a boat ferrying around 100

HANOI, July 19 (Reuters) – At least 27 people died after a tourist boat capsized in stormy weather

PAITA, Peru, March 15 (Reuters) – A Peruvian fisherman who spent 95 days lost in the Pacific Ocean, eating roaches, birds and sea turtles to

By Renee Maltezou ATHENS, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Greece’s Ombudsman has found that the coast guard failed to follow maritime rules in one of the

A 17-year-old kayaker was rescued after spending nearly 10 harrowing hours adrift in the Pacific Ocean off Honolulu last week. The incident, which began as a

By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) In a dramatic turn of events, HMNZS Manawanui, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s newly upgraded hydrographic salvage and

The U.S. Coast Guard saved a man and his loyal canine companion from a perilous situation off the coast of Florida as Hurricane Helene raged on Thursday. The

PARIS, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Eight people have died trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French authorities said on Sunday,

JOHANNESBURG, May 18 (Reuters) – Search and rescue efforts were underway in South Africa on Saturday to find 11 fishermen missing at sea after

by Captain John Konrad (gCaptain) On June 13, a grim and preventable disaster unfolded in the Mediterranean Sea. A fishing trawler known as the Adriana,

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard rescued a cruise ship passenger Thursday evening, approximately 20 miles south of Southwest Pass, Louisiana. Watchstanders

by John Konrad (gCaptain) Today at a launch event in California, Apple announced they built emergency satellite communication it’s calling

by David Dolan (Reuters) Ten people found so far from a Japanese tour boat missing off the country’s northern coast have been confirmed dead, the coast

By Tarek Amara (Reuters) Tunisian authorities intensified efforts on Saturday to avoid an environmental disaster after a merchant fuel ship carrying one

By Fabian Hamacher and Hyonhee Shin (Reuters)  Taiwan has recovered two bodies after a ship carrying six South Koreans went missing in the Taiwan