Resolved Incidents

UPDATE: August 9, 2020 Cancel Bolo. The urgent message has been passed to SV Cool Change. -------------------------------- Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network & Other Nets  Non-Emergency  Boat Watch for the "SV COOL CHANGE"  thought to be in Brazil, Argentina, or Chile. A...

Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network & Other Nets UPDATE: 1230 HRS 03 August, 2020 Cancel Bolo for SV FERNWEH. He has been located off the Florida Keys with engine trouble. ************************************************* Emergency BOLO for SV FERNWEH on passage from Isla...

UPDATE 30 July 2020  2000 HRS UTC Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network & Other Nets Cancel BOLO: SV GRAND FILOU HAS BEEN RECOVERED IN PUERTO RICO & ONE PERSON ARRESTED due to an observant cruiser reporting the boat to Boatwatch, USCG and Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Update: 01 August 2020 NON-EMERGENCY BOAT WATCH Vessel will arrive in Horta soon. The captain's SSB is not working now but his satellite tracker is functional. UPDATE 1130 HRS UTC 26 JULY 2020 S/V DELLA MYRA in position 39 23.14 N / 046 28.5W Destination: Azores, is experiencing engine problems...

UPDATE 1345 hrs, 15 July 2020 CANCEL THE NON-EMERGENCY BOAT WATCH SV COOL CHANGE, 49' Hunter, overdue in Bahamas. PLEASE CANCEL THE LOOKOUT. THE VESSEL HAS BEEN LOCATED APPROACHING BIMINI AT THIS TIME. Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network & Other Nets NON-EMERGENCY BOAT WATCH...

UPDATE: July 04, 2020 Cancel Bolo USCG and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force has called off the search for the one missing boater off Bimini. ************************************ BOLO: Royal Bahamas Defence Force, Royal Bahamas Police Marine Division and a United States Coast Guard are looking for...

UPDATE: July 2, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Cancel BOLO: Non Emergency & Overdue SV Breeze - St. Thomas to Grenada SV Breeze has arrived safely in Grenada, Port Louis.   SV Breeze is a navy blue hull 44 foot Morgan Sloop Center Cockpit with single handed captain Randy Chambers aboard. SV Breeze...

UPDATE: June 19, 2020 Cruisers in Marina Horta have advised Captain Yann Guerin's S/V Cap du Gard has exploded and caught on fire. He has been airlifted to a hospital in Lisbon suffering from severe burns. Please keep him in your prayers.  Update: June 17, 2020 Good news from friends of Captain...

 BOLO for a Hazard to Navigation - 18.5 NM West of Marco Island, Florida. 30 FOOT WHITE WITH RED TRIM AIRCRAFT - Tail Number N619J - ADRIFT at  25-56.895N    082-05.918W.   KEY WEST, Fla. – Two people were rescued by members of the Naval Air Station in Key West Monday morning, 01 June 2020...

CANCEL BOLO FOR MISSING JET SKIER NEAR DAUPHIN ISLAND, AL. Great news. At 1124 hrs ET the US Coast Guard notified Boatwatch that Mr. Brian Duff was located by a Good Samaritan near Dauphin Island Alabama. Please cancel this lookout. ************************************************ Broadcast...