US Coast Guard recently released a nail-biting video showing a maddening race to save lives aboard the Seacor Power – the vessel that capsized off the coast of Louisiana in April, taking the lives of 13 people.
At the time of writing, the current situation with over 550 rescued persons onboard the Ocean Viking humanitarian rescue ship operating in the central Mediterranean is dire.
On Sunday, two humanitarian rescue vessels pulled out almost 450 migrants onboard an overcrowded wooden boat. The boat was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea.
Following six rescue operations in the Maltese and Libyan search and rescue regions since last Thursday (July 1st), the Ocean Viking, SOS MEDITERRANEE search and rescue vessel is caring for 572 survivors.
A sailor was found clinging to a buoy 5 km from Port Phillip Bay in Australia. The 31-year-old seafarer who hails from Georgia was rescued by the police at around 8 pm on Sunday evening. The police were notified by the harbour control.
A submarine went missing 25 miles off Bali, in the Indonesian waters since Wednesday. The 53 crew member submarine KRI Nanggala-402 had gone missing during a torpedo drill in the area.
A dramatic rescue scene unfolded in the high seas off Norway on Monday, as a Dutch cargo ship was adrift.
9 people were rescued from a drifting ship in South Korea’s southern resort island Jeju. A Vietnamese sailor was at the wheelhouse during that time threatening and arguing.
According to reports, the Comoros-flagged freighter Volgo Balt 179 sank in the Black Sea about 75 NM off Constanta. The reason for the sinking not yet known.Â