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Show incidents from To Date: 24/04/2024Wednesday 24th April 00:45am – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre received a further notification from local ships agents Meyers, advising the RCCL Cruise Ship ODYSSEY OF THE SEAS, having departed Bermuda’s waters earlier in the evening. Was requesting to return to Bermuda, with a 74 year old Belgian National Passenger who had suffered a serious medical condition late in the evening, and now required urgent medical care at KEMH. The vessel returned offshore at the East End at 5am with the patient being safely transferred to Ordnance Island accompanied by a member of the ships medical team, for subsequent transfer by ambulance to King Edward Memorial Hospital, this being the 3rd medico transfer being conducted in a short frame of time.Date: 23/04/2024Tuesday 23rd April 2:40pm – Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre received notification from local ships agents Meyers, advising that the Bahamas Registered RCCL Cruise Ship ODYSSEY OF THE SEAS, was proceeding to Bermuda to transfer an Indonesian crew member suffering from a medical condition, that required urgent medical attention at a local Hospital Facility. The vessel was on passage from Fort Lauderdale, USA bound for Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Arriving offshore in Bermuda Waters on Tuesday evening at 7:00pm, the 31-year-old Crew Member was safely transferred to Ordnance Island by the Pilot/Rescue Boat St George, and subsequently taken by ambulance to KEMH for medical treatment.Date: 23/04/2024Tuesday 23rd April 7:00pm - Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre received notification from local ships agents Meyers, advising that the Bahamas Registered RCCL Cruise Ship OASIS OF THE SEAS, was proceeding to Bermuda to transfer a 69-year-old US National Passenger suffering from a medical condition, that required urgent medical attention ashore. The OASIS OF THE SEAS was on passage from Miami, USA bound for Cadiz in Spain. Coordinating with the local A&E Department at KEMH. The OASIS OF THE SEAS arrived offshore at the East End at 1am, with the medico transfer being accompanied by a member of the ships medical team to Ordnance Island, the patient was then safely transferred by ambulance to Hospital for medical treatment.Date: 14/04/2024Sunday 14th April, 12 Noon – RCC Bermuda received an email from onboard the Holland America Line Cruise ship, ROTTERDAM, on passage from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Ponta Delgada, Azores. The ship was diverting to Bermuda in order to disembark a 75 year old passenger to receive further medical care ashore. Late Monday afternoon the ship arrived offshore, and the patient was transferred to the pilot rescue boat St David along with a member of the ships medical team. The patient was transferred to an ambulance at Ordnance Island along with the ships nurse allowing the Cruise Ship to continue her passage to the Azores.Date: 12/04/2024Thursday 11th April, 10:00 pm – RCC Bermuda received a telephone call from the 24 ft pleasure craft GOTTA HAV IT disabled and at anchor near Mills Breaker Buoy with 2 POB. The skipper was contacting friends ashore but had been unable to receive confirmation of any assistance. RCC Bermuda made VHF calls on behalf of the vessel without response, the Coast Guard were advised but no action was required as the boat was safe at anchor. At 5:30 am on the visiting super yacht FLAG responded to the VHF calls for assistance and kindly agreed to tow GOTTA HAV IT into St Georges Harbour.Date: 11/04/2024Monday 11th March, 11:30 am – RCC Bermuda received an email from the inbound Dutch Sail Training ship, GULDEN LEEUW, the ship was on passage from Cuba to Bermuda and reported loosing a life raft overboard in heavy weather. The life raft inflated and could not be recovered by the ship, RCC informed other relevant Search and Rescue authorities, however, no further reports of the missing raft were received. The Sail Training ship arrived in Bermuda on Thursday 14th March without further incident and the life saving equipment was replaced before sailing.Date: 31/03/2024Sunday 31st March, 4:00 pm – A telephone call was received from a resident of North Shore Road showing concern for windsurfers on North Shore, West of Shelly Bay, due to their distance offshore. The Ferry SPIRIT OF ST GEORGE was on North shore returning to Dockyard and was able to monitor the windsurfer who was just inshore of the South channel. The Ferry Skipper was able to confirm the situation appeared normal and the Windsurfer was heading towards Shelly Bay.Date: 30/03/2024Saturday 30th March, 12:45 pm – RCC Bermuda received a SSAS security alert from the super yacht LEANDER G, the alert was generated from Kusasadasi, Turkey. The Bermuda ship register shows that the yacht left the Bermuda register in 2020 and is now Cayman registered and renamed. The previous yacht managers contacted the new flag state to have contact detail updated.Date: 29/03/2024Friday 29th March, 11:45 pm – The Captain onboard the container ship CL AGATHA CHRISTIE called RCC Bermuda from a position 200 miles North of Bermuda while on passage from New Orleans to Antwerp. The ship was receiving Radio Medical Advise to assist a crewmember with a suspected kidney problem, the decision was made to divert to Bermuda with an ETA of Saturday afternoon. The crew member was disembarked onto the Pilot / Rescue boat St David for onward transport to hospital while the ship remained offshore. On Monday 1st April a replacement crew member joined the ship and the passage to Antwerp resumed.Date: 26/03/2024Tuesday 26th March, 2:00 pm – RCC Bermuda received a call from the owner of the Fishing Vessel ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT on a mooring in Mills Creek, while inspecting the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) it became active. An EPIRB alert had been received by RCC Bermuda, thanks to the skipper reporting the activation it was quickly identified as a false alert.
