search and rescue

  The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the American cargo ship El Faro likely sank after sailing into the path of Hurricane Joaquin on Thursday. The

Update (Monday, Oct. 5, 2015) – The U.S. Coast Guard has concluded that the American cargo El Faro likely sank in Hurricane Joaquin. A search for

  Note: This story is unrelated to the missing TOTE Maritime ship El Faro, which was reported missing off the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin on

  The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday suspended its search for a missing crew member of containership between Bayonne, New Jersey, and Ocean City, Maryland

  The U.S. Coast Guard is suspending its search in the Atlantic Ocean for two missing boys a full week since they were last seen in Jupiter,

The search continued Monday for two missing teens off the coast of Florida after the U.S. Coast Guard located their overturned boat on Sunday. The 19-foot

  A Turkish-flagged cargo ship sank following a collision with a freighter near the entrance to the Bosphorus Strait on the Black Sea side, killing one

  Five men are lucky to be alive after spending five days adrift in the Pacific Ocean aboard their 14-foot aluminum skiff with little supplies. The

  In another daring rescue this week, the Indian Navy and Coast Guard rescued fourteen sailors from a general cargo ship as it capsized and sank in severe

The Indian Navy helped evacuate all 20 crew from a sinking containership off Mumbai early

  A 147-meter Maersk containership took aboard hundreds of migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea in the second such incident for the vessel in

Fourteen crewmembers remain missing more than 24 hours after a sand barge capsized in Singapore

A new system for facilitating the risk assessment of vessels in distress and to improve communication in maritime emergencies was formally introduced on

Since 15 May, the crew of the German-flagged containership Hanjin Miami, and other merchant vessels in the area, have been searching for the captain of the

A multi-agency search is underway and will continue through the night for at least five missing boaters after a strong storm system passed the Mobile Bay,

The crew of a containership helped rescue a man from his disabled sailboat off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina more than 60 days after he went

At least 54 crew on a Russian fishing trawler died and 15 were missing after it sank in freezing waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Western Pacific

Two crew are lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping a capsized tug just before it sank Monday night in strong winds and poor visibility near Southampton,

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued all nine crewmembers from the Canadian tall ship Liana's Ransom 58 miles east of Gloucester, Massachusetts on

One person has died and three others were rescued Saturday after their tug sank one mile from Fire Island National Park, New York, the Coast Guard has