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Date: 03/10/2025
Friday 3rd October, 3:12 pm – A telegraph pole was reported to be drifting near Gibbet Island, Flatts Inlet. Bermuda Radio broadcast a local Navigation Warning (LNW) regarding the floating hazard to navigation. The pole was reported again off Devonshire Dock on Friday 10th October and the LNW refreshed, there were no further updates and the LNW has now lapsed.


Date: 02/10/2025
Thursday 2nd October, 6:30 am – RCC Bermuda received an unlocated first alert from a Bermuda programmed EPIRB, the beacon was registered to the Cruise Ship VENTURA. The Carnival Fleet Operations Centre was able to confirm the ship was in the Bay of Biscay bound for Southampton, however the active beacon was no longer onboard the ship as it had been returned to the vendor when replaced. The alert was generated from a location near Bristol in the U.K., the cause of the false alert is being investigated.


Date: 30/09/2025
Tuesday 30th September, 10:15 am – RCC Bermuda received an unlocated first alert from a Bermuda programmed EPIRB, the beacon was correctly registered allowing the owner to be quickly contacted by telephone. The owner was with the boat which had just been lifted out of the water, further investigation found the beacon had been activated when it got wet inside a locker in the boat.


Date: 28/09/2025
Sunday 28th September, 5:10 pm – A 911 call was transferred to RCC Bermuda from police COMOPS, the caller was onboard a small punt with one other person and is concerned that they may drift out to sea as they do not have an engine or paddles. Further discussion found the small punt was off Kings Point, Coast Guard responded quickly and towed the boat to Mangrove Bay public dock, Coast Guard found the 2 people onboard had recently bought the punt were using sticks to propel it.


Date: 24/09/2025
Wednesday 24th September, 11:10 pm – A representative from Frontier Airlines contacted RCC Bermuda to advise that an aircraft was diverting to Bermuda due to a medical emergency. The Airbus A321 enroute from Philadelphia to Puerto Rico was approximately 30 minutes flying time from Bermuda when the emergency was declared, Bermuda Radio contacted Fire Dispatch, Police COMOPS and essential airport staff prior to the aircraft making a safe landing in Bermuda to disembark the patient.


Date: 22/09/2025
Monday 22nd September, 11:30 pm – The Captain of CARNIVAL PRIDE called RCC Bermuda via satellite telephone advising that a passenger needed to be medically disembarked and the ship had increased speed to try and arrive in Bermuda on Tuesday afternoon rather than Wednesday morning as scheduled. The ship took pilot at 5 pm on Tuesday afternoon and the passenger, who had suffered a head injury in a fall was transferred to a waiting ambulance once CARNIVAL PRIDE arrived alongside in Dockyard.


Date: 20/09/2025
Saturday 20th September, 9:50 pm – Telephone call received from a concerned family member regarding three people who went out fishing early Saturday morning and have not yet returned. RADAR showed several vessels fishing in the area and weather conditions were good. Very little information was available about the plans for the trip and the boat involved, none of the crew members could be reached by cell phone or VHF. A couple of hours later the boat returned safely.


Date: 20/09/2025
Saturday 20th September, 7:15 am – Fire Dispatch conference in Bermuda Radio on a telephone call reporting a Jet Ski on fire in Little Sound. Bermuda Radio advised Bermuda Coast Guard who were operating in the area and the reporting source helpfully sent a video clip of the vessel suspected to be on fire. Coast Guard were unable to find a vessel on fire in the area, they did however speak with a fishing vessel which was making smoke due to a defect. After searching the area, the case was considered a false alert with no further action to be taken.


Date: 17/09/2025
Wednesday 17th September 2025,12:30pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre, was notified by Fire Dispatch, that a 911 medical emergency call had been received from the vicinity of Admiralty House, in which a 53-year-old female tourist, visiting off a Cruise Ship, had sustained an injury jumping into the water from the cliffs. The RBR Coast Guard where promptly tasked to the area, and rendezvoused with the patient, then providing transport to an awaiting ambulance at Admiralty House Dock.


Date: 17/09/2025
Wednesday 17th September 2025, 7:30am – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre received a Satellite Telephone call from the captain onboard the Isle of Man Registered 64,309grt Oil Tanker M/V KMARIN RIGOUR, advising they wished to divert to Bermuda, to transfer an Indian crew member, who had suffered a serious injury to one finger on his hand following an accident onboard, which required attention at a local Hospital facility. The vessel was on passage from Lisbon, Portugal bound for the US Gulf Coast. The KMARIN RIGOUR making best speed, arrived offshore in Bermuda Waters on Saturday 20th September at 08:30am. The 44-year-old Indian Crew Member was safely transferred to Ordnance Island by the Pilot/Rescue Boat St David, and subsequently taken by ambulance to KEMH for medical treatment.


Date: 16/09/2025
Tuesday 16th September, 2:30 pm – RCC Norfolk contacted RCC Bermuda to try and identify a derelict and abandoned dis-masted Sailing Vessel approximately 700 miles east of Bermuda. Photographs of the vessel were shared and compared to Bermudas arrivals database to try and establish the identity of the yacht, this was inconclusive. Warnings regarding the floating hazard to navigation were promulgated by RCC Norfolk