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Show incidents from To 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: 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.Date: 01/11/2024Friday 1st November, 8:45 am – RCC Bermuda received a telephone call from the shipping agent acting on behalf of the Greek registered tanker HOMERIC which was on passage from Mexico to Spain. A crew member onboard had been involved in an accident and suffered a broken arm; the ship diverted to Bermuda with an ETA of 2 pm on the same day. The crewmember disembarked to the Pilot Boat St George for onward transportation to hospital by an ambulance which was arranged to meet the patient at Ordnance Island.Date: 26/10/2024Saturday 26th October, 1:54 pm – The shipping agent for the passenger ship NORWEGIAN EPIC contacted RCC Bermuda to advise the ship on passage from the Azores to Port Canaveral intends to divert to Bermuda to disembark a crew member with a suspected appendicitis. The crew member, escorted by a member of the ships medical team, disembarked onto the pilot /recue boat St David to be transported to an ambulance waiting at Ordnance Island, St George. The ship continued its passage to Port Canaveral.Date: 26/10/2024Saturday 26th October, 8:10 pm - Bermuda Radio was advised of 30 ft Pleasure Craft with 6 people onboard aground in the vicinity of Paradise Lakes on the marked shoal between Fern and Eta Island. Two Coast Guard vessels attended and transported all onboard to Barrs Bay as the boat was hard aground. The boat was refloated at high water the following morning and returned to the Dinghy Club without further incident.Date: 25/10/2024Friday 25th October, 8:06 am – Bermuda Coast Guard had received an email from the family member of a single-handed sailor who departed Nova Scotia on the 17th October onboard S/V ELEUTHEROS and was now in a position 240 miles north of Bermuda. RCC Bermuda followed up with the family member, there was some concern as the vessel is only 33 ft in length, made of wood and not fitted with an engine. Direct contact was made with the single handed sailor via their Garmin device and regular position information was received. The boat sailed into St Georges Harbour around noon on Monday 28th October without incident.Date: 22/10/2024Tuesday 22nd October, 6:20 pm – A member of the public called Bermuda Radio advising of a vessel which had recently sunk in Jew’s Bay, the vessels Marine & Ports number was visible and the contact details up to date allowing the owner to be informed. A marine contractor was employed to salvage the vessel which was landed ashore on Friday 25th October.
