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Date: 28/04/2025
Monday 28th April 2025 – 11:05am – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre receives a phone call from shoreside management of Maersk Shipping, advising the 93,511grt Singapore Registered Container Ship M/V MAERSK SANA on passage from Newark USA to Singapore had experienced an engine room explosion and was disabled approximately 350 nautical miles East from Bermuda. Three crew members had sustained injuries, one with serious burns caused by the explosion. Bermuda Radio liaised with the US Coast Guard at RCC Norfolk, due to the location of the incident, RCC Norfolk investigated options for the transfer of the injured crew to Helicopter Assets but due to the distance and logistics from land, this was not practical. A sister company vessel, the 50,657grt Hong Kong Registered Container Ship M/V MAERSK NOMAZWE on passage from Algeciras, Spain, bound for Newark USA, rendezvoused with the MAERSK SANA on Wednesday 30th April, and successfully transferred two injured crew. The third injured crew member was deemed fit enough and no longer needed medical assistance ashore. The MAERSK NOMAZWE then continued at best speed to arrive at the Deep Draft Position East of Bermuda early the next morning. Upon arrival, the two injured crewmembers were transferred ashore by the Rescue/Pilot Boat St David, to an awaiting ambulance on Ordnance Island, and both brought safely to KEMH for medical attention. The MAERSK SANA remained as of Monday 5th May disabled to the East of Bermuda. Although the vessel does have full electrical power and services onboard, an ocean-going tug has been tasked to assist the stricken vessel with mechanical spares and technicians as well as being capable of towing the vessel to a Port for subsequent repairs.


Date: 16/04/2025
Wednesday 16th April 8:25 am – Bermuda Radio received a cell phone call from the local 28 ft power boat Nail Box. The boat with 1 person onboard was disabled with an engine fault near Two Rock Passage, as it was suspected that the boat was in the channel and possibly causing and obstruction, the Coast Guard was tasked with towing the boat out of the way. The boat was towed to a boat yard in Mills Creek for repairs without further incident.


Date: 15/04/2025
Tuesday 15th April, 10:00 – The Duty Officer at Bermuda Radio had been monitoring an inbound French yacht overnight. The yacht was broadcasting the name via AIS but was not contactable on VHF Radio and made slow progress towards the east end of the island. Once the yacht was off Castle Roads they entered Castle Harbour and did not respond to calls advising they were running into danger. Coast Guard were informed as soon as it was apparent that the yacht was not going to St Georges Harbour to clear customs as required and an RBR Coast Guard boat met with the visiting yacht in Castle Harbour. The Coast Guard safely escorted the French sailing yacht to Customs and Immigration in St Georges Harbour .


Date: 14/04/2025
Monday 14th April, 12:00 Noon – The Harbour Master of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club contacted Bermuda Radio as a Local Bermuda Registered yacht had been on a members berth all weekend. The vessel was contacted by Bermuda Radio and an alternative arrangement for mooring at RBYC was agreed upon.


Date: 09/04/2025
Wednesday 9th April, 9:35 am – The Bermuda Coast Guard contacted Bermuda Radio as a 911 call had been handled by Police COMOPS, the Coast Guard boat Rescue 1 had been dispatched to Emilys Bay St Davids to help a person living on a boat get ashore to an ambulance. Bermuda Radio tried to contact the reporting source to identify the boat and location of the mooring within Emilys bay. The boat was a 40 ft sloop, with no name at the entrance of the bay. Approximately 30 minutes after the initial call the patient was transferred by Coast Guard to an ambulance waiting at Chapel of Ease Dock, St Davids, for onward transportation to hospital.


Date: 09/04/2025
Wednesday 9th April, 4:30 pm – RCC Bermuda received an EPIRB alert from the Egyptian Panamax bulk carrier WADI TIBA in a position approximately 220 miles to the North-north-east of Bermuda. The EPIRB was followed by a second EPIRB alert from a separate beacon registered to the same ship, worryingly the ship was not contactable by RCC Bermuda, although it could be monitored on Satellite AIS passing to the north at 10 knots enroute from Algeciras, Spain to Baltimore, U.S.A. RCC Bermuda coordinated with RCC Norfolk and RCC Cairo to establish contact with the ship and find out the reason for the two EPIRB activations. RCC Norfolk sent an Satellite generated EGC message to shipping in the area and RCC Bermuda requested further information regarding the vessel by NAVTEX and radio broadcasts to all shipping in the area. RCC Norfolk followed up with the ships management company who, after speaking directly with the ship, established that the ship was not in distress. The reason for the two false activations in close succession is not understood.


Date: 08/04/2025
Tuesday 8th April, 9:30 am – RCC Bermuda received a VHF call from the inbound visiting yacht GODSPEED, the USA registered 50 ft Ketch, last port Norfolk, Va, had two people onboard and was disabled due to engine issues. Later in the afternoon Bermuda Yacht Services agreed to a commercial tow and assisted the yacht alongside to clear customs.


Date: 08/04/2025
Tuesday 8th April, 5:35 pm – After her planned stay in Bermuda the passenger ship NIEUW AMSTERDAM was outbound in the North Channel, when it became apparent that a passenger needed to disembark to receive treatment ashore due to a medical emergency. RCC Bermuda co-ordinated between the ship’s agent, King Edward Memorial Hospital and Fire Dispatch to land the passenger ashore before the ship continued her passage to Falmouth, U.K. The patient disembarked in the vicinity of the Sea Buoy using the ships own tender, the ships medical team made up part of the tender crew and handed the patient over to paramedics at the Ambulance waiting at Ordnance Island, St Georges.