search and rescue

By Lin Noueihed and Chine Labbé CAIRO/PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) – A French search vessel has picked up signals from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir

CAIRO, May 26 (Reuters) – Egypt’s air accidents chief said on Thursday that a vessel provided by French company ALSEAMAR, which specializes in

By Tim Hepher and Ahmed Aboulenein PARIS/CAIRO, May 23 (Reuters) – Teams searching for the black box flight recorders of a missing EgyptAir jet that

BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) – A Chinese government bureau is planning a base station for an advanced rescue ship in the disputed Spratly Islands, state

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Amina Ismail CAIRO, May 22 (Reuters) – Egypt has sent a robot submarine to join the hunt for an EgyptAir plane which crashed in

A Colombian man has been rescued after spending a remarkable two months stranded at sea aboard a disabled 23-foot skiff. The 29-year-old man arrived in

An adventure runner has failed at his second attempt to walk from Miami to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble, once again finding himself calling on the

A Norwegian supply vessel has located and recovered the 19-foot boat belonging to two Florida teens who went missing at sea last summer. The U.S. Coast Guard

Three men were rescued from a deserted island in the western Pacific after a U.S. Navy patrol plane spotted the word H-E-L-P spelled out on

A Canadian fishing vessel with 30 people aboard is expected to arrive in Nuuk, Greenland in stable condition late Tuesday night following a complex effort

Three people were pulled from the frigid waters of the Boston Harbor cold but alive after their 55-foot tugboat sank suddenly Tuesday morning. The U.S. Coast

Forty-two people were rescued Wednesday after abandoning an American fishing vessel which had caught fire in the South Pacific approximately 1,800 miles south

The French Navy is continuing to monitor the abandoned pure car and truck carrier Modern Express in the Bay of Biscay one day after the vessel developed a

For Latest Updates: Modern Express Adrift in Bay of Biscay A Panamanian-flagged car carrier has been evacuated after a loss of stability incident in the

The luxury cruise ship Le Boreal was loaded onto the deck of the COSCO Heavy Transport ship HLV Kang Sheng Kou in Punta Arenas, Chile this week about two

Update: Scores Still Missing After Indonesian Ferry Sinks JAKARTA, Dec 19 (Reuters) – High winds prevented rescuers from reaching a ship with more than

A 99-meter cargo ship is under tow the North Sea off the Scotland’s Orkney Islands after the ship lost power in heavy weather. The UK Maritime and

The UK Ministry of Defence has provided new details on the rescue of hundreds of passengers and crew who were forced to abandon a luxury cruise ship in the

  The 36-member crew of a Papua New Guinea-flagged commercial purse seiner are safe following a joint rescue by good samaritan vessels and search and

When the U.S. Coast Guard found, and then left, a body believed to be from the the lost SS El Faro, many may have been confused. Leaving the body means