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BOLO for SV SCAPA Barcelona Spain to Antibes France
Update: French Coast Guard reports that SV SCAPA has been found and had mechanical problems, 15 miles outside of Marseilles, France. Bolo canceled.Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network and Other Networks SV SCAPA is overdue and unreported on a passage from Barcelona, Spain to Antibes, France. SV SCAPA is an Antgo 65 with a hailing port in Poland. Anyone with information should...
BOLO SV Machete Luperon, DR to St. Thomas, USVI
UPDATE: USCG San Juan aircraft has located SV Machete and they are all safe. Their ETA to St. Thomas is now June 13, 2023. USCG thanks everyone for their assistance.Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network and Other Networks USCG San Juan requests assistance in locating SV MACHETE, a 40 foot catamaran, hailing port, Honea Path, SC, with two adults and four children on board...
BOLO SV THROWING CRACKERS Key West to Isla Mujeres
Cancel BOLO: RCC Miami advises all is well with the SV who ended up in Cuba and will head back to Key West. Thank you to all of you who put out the lookout.Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network and Other Networks USCG has requested assistance in locating overdue SV THROWING CRACKERS on passage from Key West to Isla Mujeras, Mexico with Louis Spahni on board. The SV left Key West...
SV Genesis Missing Malaysia Indonesia
On June 11, 2023, South Korean Coast Guard reports SV Genesis has been located in Langkawi, Malaysia. The Coast Guard expressed their gratitude to everyone who helped look for this vessel.Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network and Other Networks The SAR Division of Korea Coast Guard requests assistance in locating SV Genesis, missing on passage near Malaysia and the Indonesia Sea...
Four Sailors Rescued from Liferaft after SV Raindancer Hit by Whale in South Pacific
Key Communications in An Offshore Rescue by Ann Hoffner Contributing Editor Ocean Navigator Magazine May/June 2023 SHORT TACKS On March 13, on a South Pacific crossing midway between Galapagos and the Marquesas, s/v Raindancer with four people on board sank after an encounter with a whale. It was lunchtime and they had been in the cockpit eating pizza. In 15 minutes the boat, a Peterson 44,...
3 Overdue Aransas Pass Gulf of Mexico
Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network and Other Networks 291026Z APR 23 HYDROLANT 920/23(11). GULF OF MEXICO. TEXAS. DNC 15. 31 FOOT M/V, WHITE AND BLUE HULL, THREE PERSONS ON BOARD, OVERDUE ARANSAS PASS (27-54.00N 097-08.00W) TO RIG HOOVER DIANA (26-56.34N 094-41.32W) AT 290140Z APR. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC NEW...
BOLO for SV AKELA II Overdue Cape Town South Africa to Caribbean
UPDATE: SV AKELA II has arrived in Martinique after 53 days at sea.Broadcast Version For Maritime Mobile Service Network and Other Networks SV AKELA II with solo captain Emmanuel Dailler, age 56, on passage from Cape Town South Africa, with stops in St. Helena and possibly Gambia is unreported. He left Cape Town on March 2, 2023 on a Lavranos SV which is a 37 foot fiberglass monohull. His only...
SV Ocean Bound Overdue Mexico to San Diego, CA
News Release U.S. Coast Guard 11th District PA Detachment LA/LBContact: Coast Guard PA Detachment LA/LBOffice: (310) 521-4260PADETLA@uscg.milPA Detachment LA/LB online newsroom Search suspended for three missing Americans 04/19/2023 08:14 PM EDT The U.S. Coast Guard has been informed that the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) has suspended their search for three American mariners aboard the sailing...
SV Ishi Overdue Hawaii to Pacific Northwest US
Anyone with information on the sailing vessel ISHI should contact the JRCC Honolulu at JRCCHonolulu@uscg.mil or 808 535-3333. Donald Lang and ‘Ishi’ Return to Port Safely After 348 Days at Sea By Latitude 38 | October 2, 2023 | Hawaii | 13 After the Coast Guard issued a BOLO in March for Ishi and Donald Lang, the 55-ft sailboat and her captain have checked in — apparently in the Hawaiian...
Medical Emergency SV Cepa World Arc South Pacific
Bravo Zulu to all the cruisers, SV PEC, MY PALADIN, World Arc Boats and the RCC centers that coordinated this effort to help in the medical emergency aboard SV CEPA. From Boat Watch Facebook Group, March 17, 2023, Cruiser Steve Bailey advised as follows and help to coordinate the amazing rescue: "Looks like a medic from SV PEC is now onboard SV CEPA and they are meeting up with a superyacht...