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Show incidents from To Date: 13/08/2025Wednesday, 13th August 2025 – 10:35am - Landline call from Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service Dispatch regarding a reported boat fire following a lightning strike. Reporting source indicates position as Queens Cove, Fairylands and BFRS requests marine transport for attending fire crew in order to access the vessel. RCC contacts RBR-Coastguard for assistance although heavy passing thunderstorm currently mid-island is expected to delay their arrival on scene. Arriving in the area at 10:55am, Rescue 1 reports that the 31 foot JC fishing boat is fully engulfed and is actually in Fairylands Creek, not Mills Creek and that a marine contractor undertaking mooring work in the Creek has assisted fire fighters with getting out to the boat. By 11:10am Rescue 1 confirms that the fire is out and that they are presently assessing the area for pollution impacts, but so far nil observed. Vessel is heavily damaged but still afloat and will be removed from the water in due course.Date: 11/08/2025Monday, 11th August 2025 – 6:19am – Bermuda Radio is contacted by the 35 foot local fishing vessel PROVIDER who reports being disabled due to battery issues in the vicinity of Sally Tuckers off the West end of the island. Multiple marine VHF radio calls on Channel 16 are made to vessels observed operating in the area with the hope of potential tow assistance but without any response. A Royal Bermuda Regiment Coastguard vessel is later dispatched to the scene with battery jumper cables allowing PROVIDER to start her engine and return to shore under her own power.Date: 10/08/2025Sunday, 10th August 2025 - 11:48am - Landline call received from 24 foot centre console SEA FLY with 4 POB, reporting being disabled after running out of fuel on North Shore off of the Tynes Bay Incinerator. Situation is stable with vessel currently anchored. Efforts by the SEA FLY and Bermuda Radio to hail passing vessels are without success so a Royal Bermuda Regiment Coast Guard vessel is eventually tasked to the casualty position as part of East End patrol duties. During this period a ‘good samaritan’ vessel is able to assist the SEA FLY with fuel. RBR-CG vessel assistance is cancelled.Date: 03/08/2025Sunday, 3rd August 2025 – 7:54am – A resident in the area of Salt Kettle reports observing a vessel of approximately 26 feet that appears to have broken from its mooring and is on the rocks in Salt Kettle Bay. The subject vessel is observed to have fishing rods and coolers onboard as well as an open cabin door which sparked a heightened concern for the safety of the vessel’s operator/owner. Observers ashore are able to verbally hail the vessel and make contact with someone asleep in the cabin below. The vessel is floated off the rocks safely at the next high tide.Date: 02/08/2025Saturday, 2nd August 2025 – 9:41am – RCC Bermuda is notified by MRCC Monrovia about a Distress Relay message received from the Bermuda registered vessel LNG IMO off the coast of Nigeria, West Africa. Contact was made with the vessel's company who quickly contacted the vessel and verified that the distress was a false alert.Date: 31/07/2025Thursday, 31st July 2025 - 12:45pm - Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service (BFRS) advises having dispatched paramedics to a call on Darrell's Island involving a person suffering severe back pain such that they are unable to move. Bermuda Maritime Operations coordinates pick up of BFRS medics by a Royal Bermuda Regiment Coastguard vessel at Darrell's Wharf public dock.Date: 31/07/2025Thursday, 31st July 2025 - 1:52pm - BFRS Dispatch reports that a second medical emergency call has been received via 911, this time from a white 40 foot sailing vessel with 7 POB located in the Great Sound. Bermuda Police Service are presently still taking caller details. The 911 call is transferred through to Bermuda Maritime Operations who attempt to locate the sailing sloop involved so that RBR-Coastguard can rendezvous with them. RESCUE 1 spots the sailboat near Buoy 102, West of Pearl Island at 2:06pm. Medical case involves a suspected cardiac arrest such that the patient is placed on oxygen and an ambulance is requested at Albuoys Point, Hamilton Harbour. RESCUE 1 arrives Albuoys Point at 2:25pm and transfers the patient to a King Edward VII Memorial Hospital ambulance crew.Date: 29/07/2025Tuesday, 29th July 2025 -8:24pm - 8.8 magnitude earthquake Southwest of Bering Island, Russia noted with tsunami warnings posted for US and Canadian west coast ports. BMOC assesses and monitors for any Bermuda registered ship problems in the eastern Pacific given uncertainty with tsunami size, impacts and timings. The alert ends by mid-morning Wednesday 30th July with fortunately only minor impacts observed along the west coast of North America and Hawaii.Date: 27/07/2025Sunday, 27th July 2025 - 6:22pm - A member of the public calls RCC Bermuda on cellphone reporting having observed a sailing vessel aground East of Hawkin's Island at the Eye of the Needle small boat channel between Hawkins and Long Islands. RBR-CG attend the area but no sailing vessel in dificulty is observed. The subject vessel apparently having been assisted or resolved the grounding on their own.Date: 26/07/2025Saturday, 26th July 2025 - 7:20pm - The 40 foot Canadian sailing vessel OURANOS with 2 POB reports being inbound to Bermuda from Horta, Azores enroute to Montreal in very light winds and without any fuel remaining and only limited battery power. The yacht is able to sail within 3 miles of Town Cut, St Georges Harbour whereupon RCC Bermuda arranges a commerical tow/fuel transfer with Bermuda Yacht Services. The yacht is ultimately taken in tow for Customs clearance in St. Georges at 1:17pm the following afternoon.Date: 26/07/2025Saturday, 26th July 2025 - 3:50pm - The local charter sailing vessel WATER GYPSY reports having an engine problem leaving them effectively disabled in St. Georges Harbour in the very light winds. Phone calls for assistance from family/friends have so far gone unanswered. Bermuda Radio attempts calls on VHF Channel 16 for assistance from passing vessels. At 4:25pm the local fishing boat CALCULATED RISK takes the WATER GYPSY in tow for dock space north of Ordnance Island.Date: 26/07/2025Saturday, 26th July 2025 - 9:41pm - Report from member of the public in Ely's Harbour regarding an apparent fuel or engine oil spill from a vessel on a mooring. The marine pollution is limited but aerial drone footage showed a definitive slick astern of the unmanned vessel probably due to the boat's automatic bilge pump. The 25 foot Sisu fishing boat's owner is contacted and attends immediately to further assess the situation which he believes may be due to his overfilling the engine oil.Date: 25/07/2025Friday, 25th July 2025 - 7:45pm - A 19 foot Scout centre console with 7 persons on board reports being disabled in Granaway Deep. BMOC directs boat to anchor to stabilise position until help can be obtained. With no replies to 'all stations' broadcasts on VHF Channel 16 seeking tow assistance BMOC tasks the RBR-CG to assist. The disabled vessel is taken in tow for the Hamilton Princess Hotel marina at 8:49pm with no safety deficiencies onboard reported.Date: 24/07/2025Thursday, 24th July 2025 - 3:10am - RCC Bermuda is notified by ARTCC New York about a general aviation Bombardier Global Express aircraft diverting to Bermuda with a technical problem. Aircraft is enroute from Aruba to Lisbon, Portugal with 5 POB and pilot reports observing low oil readings on both engines with 8 hours of fuel remaining. ETA Bermuda 4:30am. Bermuda Airport, Police and RBR-CG personnel are notified as a precaution and the aircraft lands safely at 4:35am and all other agencies are stood down. Aircraft later departs Bermuda at 0730 hours continuing it's trans-Atlantic flight to Portugal.Date: 21/07/2025Monday, 21st July 2025 - 3:00am - 27 foot fishing vessel FIN FINDER with 1 person onboard fishing 7 miles Northeast of St. David's Head calls on 911 and reports being disabled and adrift. While not taking on water, the increasingly rough conditions due to passing showers while vessel also drifting further offshore were noted as a concern. Urgent marine information broadcasts for assistance from other nearby vessels was commenced. With no reply to these general calls and with no other vessels observed on radar, the RBR-Coastguard were contacted for possible assistance. A RBR-CG vessel arrives on scene with the fishing boat FIN FINDER at 4:18am and takes in tow, eventually reaching Hunters Wharf in St George's Harbour at around 6:00am.
