rescue at sea

  A Holland America Line cruise ship diverted its Alaska itinerary to assist in the rescue of over 40 people from a disabled sightseeing boat.

When I first read of the rescue of the tall ship Liana’s Ransom, I contacted friends in the tall ship community to express my sadness at the loss of

An Australia-bound father and son duo had to be rescued from their disabled 43-foot sailboat off the coast of Nantucket on Sunday amid the brutal winter storm

Lunatics, a-holes, idiots… whatever you want to call them… In January, Reg and Jason McGlashan paid USD $10,000 for the 43-foot sailboat Sedona off

A yellow lab is lucky to be alive after a fall into the icy waters of Lake

Five people were rescued from an Irish fishing vessel this week as the ship foundered in the waters off

Seven crewmembers were rescued after their 100-foot coastal freighter began taking on water and sank Friday approximately 45 miles north off of Cap Haitien,

On December 3, 2010, the 738-foot long MV Golden Seas, carrying a cargo of Canola seed and with an estimated 450,000 gallons of intermediate fuel oil, 11,700

There may be other examples of ocean crossings that lacked solid planning or risk analysis, but as far as voyages in recent memory, this one certainly takes

The U.S. Coast Guard plucked four lobstermen from the Atlantic Ocean Thursday who were forced to abandon their sinking lobster boat about 40 miles south of

By Rob Almeida and Shubin Aleksey Andreyevich On 29 September, the Liberian-flagged Sovcomflot-owned tanker Krasnodar rescued six yachtsmen from a liferaft

Ridgebury Tankers’ Suezmax Ridgebury Astari participated in a 3-vessel rescue operation on Tuesday, 2 September while operating in the Ionian Sea.  95

UPDATE 1757 EST 11 August: All three crewmembers from the sailing vessel Walkabout are safely aboard the containership MV Manukai and enroute to Honolulu

Apparently the house doesn't always

19 crew members from the South Korean-flagged bulk carrier JS Comet simultaneously came down with an apparent case of debilitating food poisoning off Port

That. Was.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday released its report of investigation of the October 2012 fatal sinking of the tall ship Bounty during Hurricane Sandy off the

A group of civilian mariners got the surprise of their lives this Sunday when a giant Russian nuclear submarine came to the rescue after they had sent out a

Italy has rescued about 5,200 men, women and children and recovered three dead bodies from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea since early

Five fishermen were rescued Sunday from the icy waters of Notre Dame Bay off the northeastern coast of Newfoundland after abandoning their fishing vessel, the