Pelagic factory vessel Enigma Astralis is reported to have suffered a fire on board, with the whole crew evacuated. The fire is reported to have broken out on board early…
The Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter winched four crew to safety after longliner Einar Guðnason ÍS-303 grounded on rocks at the outer edge of Súgundafjörður in north-western Iceland. A mayday call…
Fraserburgh trawler Ocean Quest began taking on water early this morning in a position 75 nautical miles north-east of Fraserburgh, and subsequently sank. A lifeboat and two helicopters arrived at…
A US Coast Guard team carrying out a routine boarding of 49 metre Ecuadorian purse seiner Marujita were taken by surprise as the ship lost stability. Both crew and inspectors…
The crew of a fishing vessel were recovered from liferafts after sending a distress call on Saturday. The vessel was almost thirty miles offshore from Saldahna Bay in South Africa when the distress call was received by the SAMSA Maritime Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC) in Cape Town.
Two fishing vessels and a US Coast Guard patrol vessel are on their way to a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands where are Chinese-flagged fish carrier is aground.
The entire crew of 14 were lifted off a Norwegian fishing vessel in the northern part of Svalbard this afternoon and were brought safely to Longyearbyen.
A tuna purse seiner that suffered a fire on board last week and was towed out to sea has sunk, and an investigation has been launched into the circumstances of the vessel’s loss and how the fire started.
The distress call was received at JRCC Solon at 16.50 today from a fishing vessel on fire off Røvær. All six crew had abandoned the burning vessel.
Three crew members were rescued from a liferaft off the UK coast last night, while a search is in progress for the remaining two crew.