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Dyvi Pacific

London, Apr 27 -- Vehicle carrier Dyvi Pacific (60,000 gt), being constructed at Samjin Shipbuilding Indutries yard in Weihai, China, has capsized and sunk during sea trials. Vessel struck rocks before sinking and is lying 10 metres underwater.

Coast Guard Responds To Distressed Sailing Vessel North of Morro Bay

Date: 26 April 2006



(update)

MORRO BAY, Calif. -- One of the 47-foot motor life boats that responded to the distress call from the sailing vessel Ingomar, 13 miles north of Morro Bay, Calif., has taken the crew off the vessel and has returned to Morro Bay.

The Coast Guard received the initial report of the distress at about 4 p.m. and immediately sent two 47-foot motor life boats from Station Morro Bay and an HH-65C Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Los Angeles. The crew of the rescue boats used dewatering pumps in an attempt to remove the water from the vessel. The helicopter delivered an additional pump to the crews.

The pumps could not keep up with the amount of water entering the boat, and the crew requested to be taken to land.

The remaining 47-footer is staying on scene with the sinking vessel.

Red flares prompt large scale search in orkney

Sunday 26 April 2009 01:25
Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National)




At twenty past nine this evening Shetland Coastguard were contacted by several members of the public informing them that they had seen multiple red flares being released in the Kirkwall Bay area from the direction of Shapinsay on the Orkney Islands.

Shetland Coastguard tasked the Kirkwall Coastguard Rescue Team to meet the first informant to ascertain the location and direction of the flares. They identified an area between Carness and String, and a major search has now been launched, involving Coastguard Rescue Teams from Kirkwall and Stromness, as well as Orkney Coastguard Sector Manager, the Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel 'Anglian Earl', Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 102 and Kirkwall RNLI All Weather Lifeboat.

Shetland Coastguard Watch Manager Kathy Grant said:

"We have now launched a major search operation involving a large number of resources including Coastguard teams performing a land based search, our Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel searching out at sea, and the Coastguard Helicopter scrambled from Sumburgh to cover the search area from above.

We have also issued a Pan Pan broadcast to all vessels in the area asking them to report any flare sightings to us, and also to keep a sharp lookout. Following this broadcast, the Northlink Passenger ferry "Hjaltland" as well as the Ocean Explorer have also joined the search and we are extremely grateful for their assistance.

This search is still ongoing at this time."

Russian trawler sinks off Norway coast, captain dies

17:33 | 24/ 04/ 2009


MURMANSK, April 24 (RIA Novosti) - The captain of a Russian fishing boat died on Friday after being rescued along with the rest of his crew after their trawler sank in the Barents Sea near Norway's northern coast, Russian officials said.

A Russian fishing industry official said the Koralnes, part of the Sevrybkom-1 company fleet, sank shortly after sending a distress signal at about 9:20 a.m. Moscow time (05:20 GMT). Fifteen crewmembers drifted in an inflatable raft until another Russian trawler picked them up, while two men spent sometime in the arctic water.

"A Russian trawler rescued 15 Koralnes crewmembers from a raft, while a Norwegian rescue helicopter picked up the ship's captain and senior mechanic from the water," Sergei Vaganov said.

Norwegian police said one of the two sailors, who were transported by a Sea Hawk helicopter to a hospital in the Norwegian city of Tromsoe, died from hypothermia.

Another Russian official later confirmed that the captain of the ship had unexpectedly died in the hospital, despite arriving in a stable condition.

Alexander Savelyev, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery, said that in his opinion the cause of the tragedy was the poor state of the vessel, which was built in 1987, and complacency on the part of the ship's owner.

"This 'second-hand'...vessel had no watertight bulkheads and it took on water within seven minutes," he said.

He also said that another reason for the tragedy was the inattentiveness of the Sevrybkom-1 company to the technical state of its ships.

"This is complacency from the owner of the ship with regard to safety... He is more worried about his pocket than the people who are earning this money for him," Savelyev added.

He added that 70% of the Russian fishing fleet was in a critical condition.

Coast Guard suspends search for missing cruise ship passenger near Bahamas

Date: April 19, 2009





MIAMI -- The Coast Guard suspended its search at 8 p.m. Saturday for a missing cruise ship passenger who reportedly went overboard about 60 miles north of Nassau, Bahamas.

The Coast Guard searched an area of nearly 590 square miles for the 39-year-old man who reportedly went overboard from the cruise ship Norwegian Sky around 3 a.m. Saturday. The Norwegian Sky departed Friday from Miami for a three-day cruise and was traveling to its first port of call in Nassau.


Norwegian Sky crewmembers contacted the Coast Guard for assistance around 4 a.m. Saturday.

Search and rescue coordinators at the Seventh Coast Guard District in Miami launched an HU-25 Falcon jet crew and an HH-65C Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Miami, as well as an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) on Andros Island, Bahamas, to begin search efforts.

Also assisting in the search were:


The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF)
The Royal Caribbean Monarch of the Seas cruise ship crew
The Norwegian Pearl cruise ship crew
Disney cruise line smallboat crews

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Recovery personnel work on the grounded fishing vessel Mar-Gun April 11, 2009, despite heavy icing. The Mar-Gun grounded March 5 of St. George Island in the Bering Sea. No one was injured. Response crews removed the majority of the diesel and lube oil on board. The recovery crew is preparing the vessel to be pulled from the beach and towed to port. (Coast Guard photo/Sector Anchorage)

Two sailors missing after Taiwanese boat sank near Diaoyu Islands

www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-17 19:19:50 Print

TAIPEI, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Two people are missing after a Taiwanese fishing boat sank early Friday morning after a seemingly collision with a cargo ship off the seas of the Diaoyu Islands, local media reported.

There were 13 people on board the boat when the accident occurred at around 12:30 a.m. about 20 nautical miles(about 37 km) northwest of the Diaoyu Islands, according to the reports.

Two nearby fishing boats went to the site of the accident and rescued 11 crewmen, but the captain and the chief engineer are still missing.

It was supposed that the fishing boat, Hsin Tung Chung No. 82, was sunk by a cargo vessel from Panama or Norway.

Coast guard authorities from Taiwan and Japan are searching for the two crewmen.

China claims sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands and adjacent islets, saying they have been Chinese territories since ancient times. The uninhabited islets in the East China Sea are also claimed by Japan.

Yacht Crew with Severely Cracked Hull calls for Help from Clyde Coastguard

Thursday 16 April 2009 22:59
Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National)




Clyde Coastguard have this evening been coordinating the rescue of five individuals from the yacht `Ariadne' which reported that she had a split hull and was taking water off the Heads of Ayr, near Troon on the east coast of Scotland.

The Ayr Coastguard Rescue Team were immediately sent to the area and the Troon all weather and inshore lifeboats were requested to launch. A rescue helicopter from Prestwick was also scrambled.

The 40 foot yacht, a blue striped, white hulled vessel was heading north to Troon at the time, and reporting that she had 1 foot of water in the hull at the time. The people on board were baling water as fast as they could but were unable to reduce the inflow. Their sails were down and they were attempting to motor to the nearest port. The Coastguard requested any nearby vessels to go and investigate and offer assistance if they could.

By about 7.45 this evening the Troon RNLI lifeboat crew had taken four people off the yacht and put two of their own crew aboard complete with a pump. A rescue helicopter winchman was also airlifted on to the yacht as there was a report of a man in distress on board.. The winchman decided to stay with the vessel and not winch the yacht crew member aboard the aircraft as he was suffering from high blood pressure. However a request was made for paramedics and an ambulance to be waiting upon the yachts arrival in the harbour.

The Marina authorities were also contacted and they made ready to hoist the vessel out of the water as soon as it arrived to prevent the yacht from sinking.

By 8.15 this evening the yacht had made it into the harbour and was immediately lifted from the water for a further closer inspection tomorrow and the shaken man was being seen by paramedics at the scene.

George Freeburn, Watch Manager at Clyde Coastguard said

"This was a close run thing. Reports from the lifeboat crew indicated that there was a severe crack in the hull and the rescue pump was just about coping with the ingress of water as the yacht came into Troon at about 3 knots under escort. They also lost their communications en route as well.

"I'd very much like to thank everyone who took part in this rescue tonight, particularly the RNLI lifeboat crew, who very ably took charge when they reached the clearly distressed people on board the yacht. And also the crew of rescue helicopter R177 who were able to assist, and I am sure that the crew of the yacht were mightily relieved to see the familiar sight of these rescue units approaching them as fast as they could."

12 fishermen missing after boat capsizes, sinks in E. China Sea

NAGASAKI, April 14 KYODO

Twelve of the 22 crewmembers aboard a Japanese fishing boat went missing Tuesday after the boat capsized and sank off Hirado Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, just west of Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, the Japan Coast Guard said.
The remaining 10 crew members were rescued by other fishing boats, coast guard officials said.

Five injured after boat lands heavily in the water

London, 14 April/GNN/ --

MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY News Release (70-09) issued by COI News
Distribution Service on 14 April 2009
Milford Haven Coastguard are currently co-ordinating assistance to five people who were all injured in a large rigid water jet powered passenger carrying vessel, the `Ocean Ranger', which came off a wave and landed heavily in the sea off the coast of south west Wales.

The vessel run by 'Thousand Island Expeditions' is an MCA coded vessel capable of carrying 12 passengers, and was carrying 11 passengers at the time of the incident.

The incident occurred off St Justinian's, around a mile and a half from St Davids. Rescue helicopter, R 169, took the most seriously injured person to Withybush hospital after winching the individual from the scene, who was suffering from serious back injuries. After the vessel made its way back to St Justinian's, a further two individuals were taken by an air ambulance to the same hospital, both of whom were also suffering from back injuries.

Two further people were taken by land ambulances, also to Withybush hospital, possibly with bruised or broken ribs.

St Davids Coastguard Rescue Team were also mobilised and they assisted in getting the passengers off the vessel and communications shoreside.

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch have been informed and MCA surveyors will visit the craft tomorrow.

Fire on Greek ferry in Aegean Sea, no injuries

Fire on Greek ferry in Aegean Sea, no injuries


2009-04-10 10:19:04 -


ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A small fire broke out Friday in the engine room of a Greek ferry with more than 500 people on board in the Aegean Sea but was extinguished without injury, authorities said.
A Merchant Marine Ministry statement said the fire broke out in one of the High Speed V's four engines. It was quickly put out by the crew and the ship arrived safely in port on the island of Serifos.
The ferry with 512 passengers and 36 crew members was en route from Athens' main port of Piraeus to the holiday island of Santorini, with stops at the islands of Paros, Naxos and Ios. The fire broke out east of Kythnos, about halfway along the route.
The ministry said another ferry was on its way to Serifos to take the High Speed V's passengers to their destination.

Windsurfer search called off

Wednesday 8 April 2009 00:59
Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National)




Forth Coastguard confirms that the search for a windsurfer was called off just before midnight on Tuesday.

Forth Coastguard was contacted at 6.05pm by a member of the public reporting that a male windsurfer was overdue and had last been seen two hours earlier between Thornton Loch and Cove. Forth Coastguard immediately launched an air and sea search involving RNLI lifeboats from Dunbar, Eyemouth and St Abbs, Coastguard Rescue Teams from Eyemouth and St Abbs and Rescue Helicopter 131 from RAF Boulmer.

A windsurf board was located by rescuers but the surfer was not found on the surface despite an extensive search of the area.

Busy Humber Coastguard co-ordinate Rescue of Injured Woman and Fishing Vessel

Monday 6 April 2009 08:56
Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National)




At 07.20 this morning North East Ambulance Control informed Humber Coastguard that they had received a call from a woman who suspected she had broken her leg whilst walking her dogs on the shore at Newbiggin.

Coastguard Rescue Teams from Blyth and Newbiggin were immediately sent to the scene to assist the injured woman, and once on scene they assessed that the easiest way to bring the woman to the waiting ambulance would be in the lifeboat. Humber Coastguard requested the launch of the Newbiggin RNLI Inshore Lifeboat, which was launched with a paramedic on board. The Coastguard Rescue Teams helped place the lady on board the lifeboat and she was brought ashore and into the ambulance.

Whilst this incident was ongoing Humber Coastguard received a call at 09.15 from the 10 metre fishing vessel 'Pride and Joy' who was taking on water in Skinningrove Bay due to a burst water intake pipe. Humber Coastguard requested the launch of the Staithes RNLI Inshore Lifeboat who towed the vessel back in, with all three people on board safe and well. Skinningrove Coastguard Rescue Team were also tasked to supervise the tow from the shore and to relay communications.

Humber Coastguard Watch Manager Graham Dawson said:

"It has been a busy morning for Humber Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) but we are glad that all incidents have come to a successful close. In the case of this morning's incident the lady reported that her over-excited dogs had knocked her over, breaking her leg. She is now receiving medical assistance in hospital."

Pirates seize British cargo vessel

Apr 6 2009

A shipping union chief has called for tougher action against piracy after a British-owned vessel was seized by Somalians in the Gulf of Aden.

The pirates, sailing in two small rowing boats, hijacked the 32,000-tonne bulk carrier Malaspina Castle on Monday morning.

The Panamanian-flagged vessel, which was bound for China with a cargo of iron, had 24 people aboard from Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine and the Philippines.

All were believed to be safe and the 183m-long vessel, built in 1981, was thought to be undamaged.

Mark Dickinson, assistant general secretary of the UK ships' masters' union Nautilus, condemned the attack, which was the latest in a series of incidents involving Somali pirates.

He said: "Over the last 10 years, most governments have not really done very much about this. More recently they have been motivated to act and there is an EU naval co-ordination force patrolling off the Gulf of Aden.

"I'm not sure that this is going to be a long-term thing and I'm also worried that the pirates will start seizing ships well away from the areas being patrolled.

"In Somalia, piracy is like a big, successful industry and the authorities there need to act. The pirates are treated like local heroes. People look up to them and girls want to marry them. They are seen by some locals as good people, but they are ruthless."

Vessels in the Gulf of Aden area are urged to register with the The Horn of Africa maritime security centre website. This is run at Northwood, north-west London, by EU NavFor (Naval Force) which co-ordinates anti-piracy arrangements under the codename Operation Atalanta.

An EU NavFor spokesman said: "We encourage vessels to register with us so they can arrange to move together through the Gulf of Aden area in group transit. They are not escorted in these transits by naval vessels but obviously there is safety in numbers. The British-owned vessel in today's incident was not in a group transit."

Six people missing after shipwreck in Amazon River

15:10, April 06, 2009


Six people were reported missing Sunday after an overloaded ferry sank in the Amazon River in the town of Itacoatiara, the Brazilian Navy said.

The ferry, with a capacity of 38 people, was carrying 47 passengers when the wreck happened, said the Ninth Naval District of the Brazilian Navy.

A ship, a helicopter and some small boats were engaged in the research for the missing.

Other 41 people were rescued alive and so far none were reported seriously injured.

Source: Xinhua




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Rescue launched for two Italian sailors on crippled yacht - Summary

Posted on : 2009-04-06 | Author : DPA
News Category : Australasia


Wellington - A rescue operation was launched Monday to save two Italian sailors stranded on a crippled yacht in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Chile. An oil tanker was diverted to their aid, but New Zealand's Rescue Coordination Centre said it was 800 nautical miles from the 10-metre yacht and would not reach them for nearly three days.

They were identified as father and son, Pietro Fresi, 64, and Vittorio Fresi, 34, who reportedly sailed in their yacht Onitron from Italy in September planning to retrace the clipper route of sailing ships in the 19th century on a voyage expected to take up to 300 days.

The pair used a satellite phone to tell contacts in Rome that their yacht's mast had broken and was hanging over the side of the boat, and it had lost engine power about 3,000 kilometres from New Zealand.

New Zealand authorities, who have international responsibility for maritime rescue operations in the area, were alerted and they asked the oil tanker Hellespont Trooper to help.

Dave Wilson, of the Rescue Coordination Centre, said it was the nearest ship to the stricken yacht, but it would not reach it until about midnight New Zealand time (1200 GMT) on Wednesday.

Wilson told Radio New Zealand the yacht capsized in a storm in the early hours of Monday and although the sailors were able to right it, the mast broke in winds up to 45 knots and 7-metre sea swells.

"They are in quite good spirits considering and they will just hunker down and wait for that ship to arrive," he said. "They are inside the hull of the boat and just riding out the worst of the conditions now.

"It is quite amazing that they managed to come through unscathed."

Wilson said the weather was forecast to improve and the men had a life raft, 10 days of food and a distress locator beacon if they lost the satellite communication that had enabled them to keep in regular contact with New Zealand and the tanker.

Once the Fresis are found, the Hellespont Trooper is expected to take them to Argentina.




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Somali pirates seize German ship off Somalia

20:26 GMT, April 5, 2009 Officials said on Sunday that Somali pirates seized a German container vessel of 20,000 tonnes off the Somali coast in the Indian Ocean.

A spokesman for the German Defense Ministry confirmed the attack in the Indian Ocean but did not have further details. He spoke on customary condition of anonymity. The attack was first reported by a Kenyan group that monitors piracy.

Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Program was quoted as saying he believed there were 24 crew members on the German ship, which was taken on commercial shipping lanes off the southern Somali port of Kismayu.

"We believe the German ship has 24 crew on board. We're trying to establish their identities and the name of the vessel," Mwangura told Reuters.

Heavily armed gangs from the lawless Horn of Africa nation hijacked dozens of vessels there and in the strategic Gulf of Aden last year, taking hundreds of sailors hostage and making off with millions of dollars in ransoms.

There were no further details of the ship. Somali pirates also opened fire on an Israeli-owned cargo ship in the Indian Ocean Saturday but they failed to board the vessel.

A week ago, German Navy units in the area thwarted an attempted pirate attack on a navy tanker in the Gulf of Aden and detained seven would-be pirates.

More than 20 warships from different countries – including Russia, China, France and India and USA were deployed in the Gulf of Aden last year – to patrol sea lanes in the Gulf of Aden and parts of the Indian Ocean through which about 16,000 ships pass each year.

Fishermen rescued from sinking boat

London, 2 April/GNN/ --

MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY News Release (Press Notice: 59/09) issued by COI News Distribution Service on 2 April 2009

At 12:55 pm today Belfast Coastguard received a 999 called from the JENEMI, a 10 metre fishing boat that had lost all power and was sinking about approximately eight miles east of the entrance to Strangford Lough.

The Portaferry Coastguard Rescue Team and Portaferry RNLI Inshore Lifeboats were called to assist the two crew members. Unfortunately the JENEMI sank quickly and the crew had to take to their life-raft, from where they were rescued and brought ashore by the RNLI lifeboat.

Alan Pritchard, Watch Manager at Belfast Coastguard said:

"It's fortunate that the crew of the JENEMI had a life-raft that they could use when they needed to abandon ship.

"I'd recommend all small fishing boats to carry life-rafts and or emergency beacons so that in the event of an emergency at sea the crew can safely abandon ship and will be located quickly".

Fatalities after helicopter ditches in North Sea

Wednesday 1 April 2009 17:08
Maritime And Coastguard Agency (National)




Rescue vessels are in the process of recovering a number of fatalities following a helicopter crash earlier this afternoon. Two liferafts were spotted in the water which were both overturned. The search is continuing for the remaining passengers and crew.

The aircraft, a Bond AS 33L Mk 2 was carrying 16 people in total; 14 passengers and two crew. All were wearing survival suits.

The weather this afternoon is dry and settled in the area with light breezes, south easterly3 veering southerly 4, visibility is moderate to good. The temperature of the water in the area is currently 8 degrees Celsius.

At just before 2.00 pm this afternoon, Aberdeen Coastguard were informed of a ditched Bond helicopter about 13 and a half miles off the coast of Crimond (between Fraserburgh and Peterhead)

Two helicopters from the RAF (R131 & R 137) were scrambled to the scene and a Nimrod marine patrol aircraft has been diverted to the area. Aberdeen Coastguard began to broadcast a mayday signal into the area. RNLI lifeboats from Peterhead and Fraserburgh are also searching in the sea area.

The Caledonian Victory is on scene and the 'Nord Fortune' and 'Vigilant' are on their way. Four fishing vessels are also involved in the search, making a total of 11 vessels conducting a sea search.

A variety of vessels immediately responded and the nearest vessel the `Normand Aurora' have launched their fast rescue craft to the scene.

Notes to Editors

The MCA is a partner in the Sea Vision UK campaign to raise awareness and understanding of the sea and maritime activities. Sea Vision promotes the importance and economic value of the sector and works to highlight the exciting range of activities and career opportunities available to young people within the UK growing maritime sector. http://www.seavisionuk.org