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Video: Storm grounds fishing vessel, capsizes Coast Guard rescue boat
US Coast Guard rescuers performed a dramatic airlift early Thursday morning when a fishing vessel grounded just metres from shore in New York during poor weather.
Coast Guard boat crew trains in heavy surf
Dramatic video posted by the US Coast Guard shows their 42ft boat being pounded by waves during a training exercise.
Man airlifted to safety after falling from fishing boat into rough seas
The crew member fell overboard off the coast in County Down
UK rowing team rescued after boat capsizes
The Falmouth Coastguard coordinated a rescue effort to aid a rowing team whose boat had capsized some 400 nautical miles off the coast of Cape Verde.
42 abandon burning ship, rescued in South Pacific
Forty-two people forced to abandon ship when their fishing vessel caught fire in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean were rescued in a joint effort on Wednesday.
Video: Final rescue attempts for huge cargo ship headed for French coast
A last-ditch rescue effort is underway to stop an enormous cargo ship from running aground on France's southwest coast.
Coast Guard recovers body in search for man whose boat capsized
Divers have recovered the body of a man who went missing when the canoe that he and another man were in capsized in Kenmare Bay in Ireland. Coast Guard divers found the body Monday morning (1 February) following search efforts that spanned two days. The other man in the boat managed to swim to shore where he…
Coastguard responds to sinking fishing boat
A Coastguard Rescue Team and local firefighters were called to the scene of a sinking fishing boat in the North Yorkshire town of Scarborough this morning.
Watch: five fishermen rescued off the Norwegian coast
Watch the dramatic footage of the trawler capsizing in freezing waters off the Norwegian coast, above the Arctic Circle.
UK Coastguard attends bus beach crash in County Down
Bus lands on the beach in Northern Ireland.
Photos and video: RNLI, Coastguard respond to Cumbria floods
Rains hit Cumbria in the UK on an unprecedented scale this weekend, with a month’s worth of precipitation inundating the region in just 24 hours. See the images and footage.
Yacht wreckage found on Redcar Beach sparks appeal
The Coastguard are trying to determine whether somebody might be injured or in difficulty after a red, blue and white part of a sailing yacht turned up on Redcar Beach over the weekend. Hartlepool and Skinningrove Coastguard Rescue Teams have been searching the area and have confirmed that the wreckage…
Family rescued by Portland coastguard and RNLI in Dorset
Family rescued by Portland coastguard in Charmouth, Dorset
Video: French yachtsman saves his cat in at-sea rescue
A lone French sailor saved himself and his cat when his 30-foot yacht lost its rudder and rigging in rough waters off the coast of Alaska.
Boat and helicopter search for sinking yacht off the coast of Cork
Boats and helicopter search for sinking yacht off the coast of Cork
Two rescued at Pwllheli marina as yacht runs aground
Two people were rescued from their 30ft yacht after it ran aground at the entrance to Pwllheli marina.
Video: Two men rescued from boat by RNLI in County Antrim
Two men have been rescued by the RNLI after their boat got lost in thick fog in Larne Lough, County Antrim.
Baby rescued from sinking speedboat in Cornwall
A baby and five adults were rescued from a speedboat that had run into rocks in Plaidy, East Looe on Sunday.
Missing woman’s body named by Highland Police
Authorities have identified missing tourist's body found off the coast of northern Scotland.
Diver rescued by the Royal Navy, the Coastguard and RNLI
The Royal Navy, the Coastguard and RNLI joined forces in Cornwall to rescue a diver who’d been separated from his partner diving a wreck miles off the Lizard Peninsula. The dive boat sent a mayday call at 2.30pm on Tuesday 1 September, which set off a big combined rescue operation.…