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Almost 200 trainee cadets, officers and permanent crew members of the US Coast Guard training vessel Eagle have made port in Bermuda under the ship’s first female captain Jessica Rozzi-Ochs. The 295-foot barque is visiting the island for the 39th tim...

Three American mariners sailing to Bermuda from the British Virgin Islands have been rescued after their yacht began to take on water. The sailors were rescued about 300 miles north of Puerto Rico by the US Coast Guard, who also towed the 45ft vesse...

A fisherman brought in an unusual catch this week when he rescued two men who were adrift after their boat sunk off the coast of the island. Robert Lambe of Last Chance Fisheries – who himself was rescued at sea almost 20 years ago – said yesterday: ...

A pet dog trapped for two days in the apartment block that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion was pulled from the debris alive and well yesterday. The dog was being looked after by a resident of the Hilltop Court building in Southampton when the...

An elderly man suffered serious injuries after a fire in an apartment block yesterday. Firefighters rescued the man from the burning building after they were alerted to the fire in a first-floor apartment at 1 Devon Spring Lane, Devonshire, at about...

UK Coastguard officers have mounted a training exercise with the Royal Bermuda Regiment Coast Guard and other emergency services. The exercise was led by Commander Phil Bostock, the HM Coastguard Operational Lead, Overseas Territories Search and Resc...

A cat-astrophe was avoided yesterday after a pet cat got stuck at the top of a utility pole. A full-scale rescue operation that involved the SPCA and a cherry-picker from power firm Belco was launched after a sharp-eyed schoolgirl spotted the strande...

A Turkish seaman suffering from lower abdominal pain was transferred from an oil tanker last Monday. Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said. BMOC said on its website that it was notified on August 15 that the Maltese-registered crude oil tanker Zey...

A wife and husband say they are lucky to be alive after lightning hit their house blowing out a ceiling, cracking a chimney, smashing a glass fire guard and causing electrical explosions. Lorna and Paul Singh were in their house on Rockywold Drive in...

A man who was rescued by the US Coast Guard in 2014 trying to travel from Florida to Bermuda by sea in a floating bubble, has drifted ashore trying to “walk” to New York from Florida. Reza Baluchi, a marathon runner and Iranian exile, was featured o...

A French yacht en route to the Azores was towed to the island yesterday after it was hit by rough weather and mechanical problems. The Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre said the 40ft French boat Reve D’Oceans IV was en route from the Dominican Repub...

The coastguard, Navy and good Samaritan vessels combined efforts to medevac a tanker ship crew member to Bermuda on Friday. Rescue Co-ordination Centre Bermuda notified watchstanders at the coastguard’s Fifth District command centre in Portsmouth of ...