Ten passengers and eight crew from Silversea’s expedition ship Silver Cloud were rescued after being stranded on a remote island off Australia’s northwest coast, reported 1News New Zealand. The unexpected situation unfolded on Thursday afternoon near Adele Island, approximately 100 km north of mainland Western Australia, during a guided zodiac excursion.
Royal Caribbean’s flagship Icon of the Seas made an unexpected return to the Port of Ponce Wednesday afternoon. According to a statement from the Municipality of Ponce, an 80-year-old female passenger from Trinidad & Tobago experienced a medical emergency aboard the world’s largest cruise ship.
The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF), in collaboration with Lloyd’s Register Foundation, has launched the first global review of maritime search and rescue (SAR) systems. This groundbreaking initiative aims to assess the current effectiveness of SAR capabilities worldwide and provide long-term, evidence-based recommendations to enhance their resilience and reach.
A 31-year-old crew member was injured aboard a Bahamas-flagged cruise ship while in Santorini on Sunday, June 15, according to local media reports. The seafarer, working in the engine department sustained a leg injury while descending a stairway to the engine room.
A medical emergency aboard P&O Cruises' Britannia prompted the ship to make an unscheduled arrival into the Cromarty Firth, Scotland, on the evening of Sunday, June 8, 2025. The vessel was originally been scheduled to arrive in the port of Invergordon on the morning of Monday, June 9.
A dramatic rescue unfolded Tuesday afternoon at the Port of Souda in Crete, when a 30-year-old crew member from a cruise ship plunged into the sea under unexplained circumstances.
The woman, identified as a Tunisian national working as an assistant seaman, fell overboard while the cruise ship flagged in the Bahamas, was docked at the port. The reason behind her fall remains unclear, prompting an ongoing investigation by Greek authorities.
The crew of AIDAluna played a vital role in the successful rescue of several shipwrecked individuals found adrift in a life raft late Tuesday night, June 3, 2025, off the coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle. The rescue occurred around 11 p.m. when the German cruise ship AIDAluna spotted the survivors and swiftly sprang into action.
The cruise ship Carnival Splendor has come to the rescue of four stranded sailors and their three dogs after their catamaran broke down in rough seas south of New Caledonia.
The incident occurred Thursday morning when the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Noumea received a distress signal from the disabled vessel. The catamaran, which had been sailing toward Fiji after circumnavigating Australia, suffered engine failure and a broken mast amid turbulent weather.
A team from Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency medically evacuated two passengers who fell ill aboard a cruise ship sailing through the waters off Aceh Province.
Indonesian authorities launched an emergency medical evacuation over the weekend after two passengers aboard a cruise ship sailing off the coast of Aceh Province fell seriously ill. The passengers were traveling on the Mein Schiff 6 en route from Port Klang, Malaysia.
A Mediterranean cruise turned into a rescue mission early Monday morning when the MSC Orchestra, en route from Ibiza to Sardinia, encountered a drifting motorboat carrying 16 migrants off the southwestern coast of the Italian island.
According to reports confirmed by Italian authorities, the nearly 300-meter-long cruise ship spotted the small vessel near the coast of Sant'Antioco around 2 a.m. while it was sailing toward Cagliari for a scheduled stop on its seven-day Western Mediterranean itinerary.
