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Show incidents from To Date: 28/11/2024Thursday 28th November 2024 – 4:05pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre receives a 406 MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) satellite distress alert from the 31 foot commercial fishing vessel BLACK FISH. The EPIRB is detected in the vicinity of Argus Bank approximately 22 miles southwest of Bermuda. Using the EPIRB contact details on file, Bermuda Radio is able to telephone the fishing boat's designated emergency contact ashore who confirms that the vessel is indeed fishing offshore with 3 persons onboard. Bermuda Radio is unable to directly communicate with the vessel via VHF radio or cell phone and so commences Urgency Broadcasts on marine VHF radio for any vessels in the area to keep a sharp lookout for the fishing boat or other signs of distress. Local fishing vessels REEL ADDICTION and PARADISE ONE respond to Bermuda Radio's broadcasts and the REEL ADDICTION proceeds from Challenger Bank to the EPIRB position, arriving on scene at 5:35pm and finding the BLACK FISH disabled. The REEL ADDICTION takes the BLACK FISH in tow arriving back at Ely's Harbour by 10:00pm that evening with the PARADISE ONE and a RBR-Coast Guard vessel standing by to assist should the situation deteriorate.Date: 24/11/2024Sunday 24th November 2024 – 2:25pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre received reports of an overdue Kite Surfer who had been surfing from Somerset Long Bay, and had not been seen for over 2 hours, Bermuda Radio commenced Urgency Broadcasts on Marine VHF for any sightings or information, and commenced tasking the RBR Coast Guard and Police Land Units to assist with searching for the missing person, at 3pm the Missing Kite Surfer had returned to Somerset Long Bay, having drifted to Dockyard, he then took a Taxi back to Somerset Long Bay to retrieve his belongings from the beach.Date: 24/11/2024Sunday 24th November 2024 – 4:15pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre was contacted by the US Coastguard at RCC Norfolk, requesting any information on the 42ft Sailing Vessel CEOL MOR with 1 person onboard, which had departed Norfolk, Virginia and was bound for North Carolina. A concerned family member in the UK had raised concern, having not heard from the vessel as per an arranged communications schedule. The US Coastguard had been conducting searches for the vessel using C130 aircraft without success and had reached out to RCC Bermuda in the chance they may have altered plans to come to the Island. On Thursday 28th November at 05:30am Bermuda Radio established VHF radio communications with the inbound Sailing Vessel CEOL MOR, who had diverted his passage plan to Bermuda due to Weather Conditions off the US East Coast, the single handed sailor arrived safely into St Georges Harbour at approximately midday and was advised, how much concern and effort had been made following his diversion and loss of communication with family members ashore.Date: 22/11/2024Friday 22nd November 2024 - 1:42pm - Bermuda Radio received a Mayday Call on Marine VHF channel 16 from two sail training dinghies each with 2 crew onboard that had both capsized in the Great Sound after departing Mangrove Bay enroute back to Dockyard. Bermuda Radio is able to use its systems to pinpoint their position and tasks a Royal Bermuda Regiment-Coast Guard vessel from Boaz Island to the incident scene to assist. All four persons wearing personal flotation devices are quickly recovered from the water and the two capsized sailboats were also later recovered without further damage. Higher than expected winds in passing squalls were a contributing factor, but the vessel occupants being in possession of a marine VHF handheld radio allowed for rapid determination of their location using radio direction finding by the Rescue Coordination Centre as well as particulars about their predicament being quickly communicated to Bermuda Radio and other vessels in the vicinity.Date: 15/11/2024 Friday 15th November, 7:30 am – Staff at the Grotto Bay hotel contacted Bermuda Radio to advise a large boat had broken from its moorings in Grotto Bay and is drifting towards the Causeway. A police land unit was asked to attend, at 8:00 am a truck driver on the Causeway called Bermuda Radio as a cabin cruiser was stuck in an arch of the Causeway, the police later provide the boat name “ISMAY AVIS” The boat was correctly registered and the owners agreed to attend as soon as possible. Bermuda Coast Guard towed the boat to Grotto Bay Dock, there was no damage to the Causeway and the boat was later towed to St Georges boat yard for repairs.Date: 15/11/2024Friday 15th November 2024 1:58pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre received notice from concerned friends ashore in Bermuda, reporting that the 75ft Catamaran Motor Yacht NOVEMBER RAIN on passage from Horta in the Azores and bound for Bermuda, with 5 persons onboard, located approximately 1000nm Southeast of Bermuda, did not have enough fuel to make it to Bermuda, due to one defective engine. A routine 6 hourly communications schedule was established with the NOVEMBER RAIN, and Bermuda Radio liaised with the US Coast Guard and arranged for a Merchant Vessel to rendezvous to provide emergency fuel, on Sunday 17th November the m/v GAS SHURIKEN came alongside the NOVEMBER RAIN and transferred fuel to enable passage onto Bermuda. The NOVEMBER RAIN then continued safely under own power, arriving into St Georges Harbour in the early hours of Saturday 23rd November.Date: 13/11/2024Wednesday 13th November, 7:00pm – The owner of the yacht TRINITY VI called Bermuda Radio from ashore, the yacht was on passage to St Thomas with two people onboard in a position 325 miles northwest of Bermuda. They had started to take on water via the rudder. Bermuda Radio made direct contact with the delivery skipper onboard via satellite phone, he confirmed the details of the situation and advised the United States Coast Guard were also involved and had overflown the yacht in a C130 aircraft earlier in the day. The yacht diverted to Bermuda and the pumps onboard were keeping up with the water ingress, details of the safety equipment onboard were recorded and a communications schedule set up to monitor progress. TRINITY VI made slow progress to Bermuda as they frequently needed to heave to which reduce the water ingress. On Monday morning the boat arrived in Bermuda and arranged to be lifted out of the water.Date: 09/11/2024Saturday 9th November, 5:15 pm – A member of the public observing from Mid Ocean Club, Tuckers Town, contacted Bermuda Radio via a 911 call concerned for two people who appeared to be on a paddle board approximately 400 meters offshore. The weather was not suitable for being out on a paddle board and they appeared to be drifting further out to sea. A police land unit was dispatched and the Bermuda Coast Guard prepared to respond if required. Police quickly arrived on scene and were also concerned as the two people appeared to have become separated, Coast Guard were dispatched from their base at Watford Bridge and the Pilot Boat also prepared to respond while police maintained a lookout on scene. At 5:50 pm, as it was becoming dark, the people returned to the shore and were met by police. Despite the strong northerly winds and rough seas they claim they were never in any distress, the Coast Guard and pilot boat were stood down before arriving on scene.Date: 08/11/2024Friday 8th November, 10:20 pm – An EPIRB alert was received from a United States registered beacon in a position 63 miles Northeast of Bermuda, a search of the visiting vessels database shows the beacon was registered to the sailing vessel UXORIOUS IV which was last in Bermuda in 2012. A call to the emergency contact found the yacht to be safe and out of the water in the U.S. The active beacon had been lost overboard last year while on passage from the Caribbean to Newport Rhode Island.Date: 06/11/2024Wednesday 6th November, 4:30 am – RCC Bermuda received a SSAS security alert from the Tanker STENA SUNRISE, after contacting the ships management company ashore the alert was determined to be false. The ship was confirmed to be alongside in Antwerp.Date: 04/11/2024Monday 4th November, 12:30 am – RCC Bermuda received a 911 call from a concerned member of the public ashore regarding the safety of windsurfers on North Shore, Murrays Anchorage, St George. The Duty Officer was able to monitor the windsurfers from the operations room at Fort George and concluded that the windsurfers did not require any assistance.Date: 03/11/2024Sunday 3rd November, 2:30 am – The United States Coast Guard contacted RCC Bermuda regarding a crew member who needed to disembark from a ship due to a medical emergency. The Norwegian registered supply ship ISLAND PRIDE had contacted RCC Stavanger and received medical assistance via telephone advising them to divert to the closest port. Bermuda was found to be closest and the ship disembarked the patient to the pilot boat to meet an ambulance waiting at Ordnance Island, St George, later that evening. The ship was scheduled to call at Bermuda later in the week for a planned crew change and went alongside Penno’s Wharf the following morning.
