11 Rescued From Burning Fishing Boat in South Africa
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11 rescued from burning fishing boat in South Africa    JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- South African National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) rescued 11 fishermen from a burning boat off Mossel Bay harbor, about 1,100 km south of Johannesburg, on Thursday.
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A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.
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Eleven people have been killed and at least four are missing after gale-force winds battered northern Europe at the weekend, causing flooding and transport chaos and leaving hundreds of thousands without ...
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More than 40 miners who were trapped underground Wednesday by a fire in an Australian gold mine have been rescued, local media reported.
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At least eight people were killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - One of six Newfoundland fishermen who was saved after a dramatic rescue at sea is attributing their survival to a swift response from search and rescue personnel and a united desire to leave no man behind.
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Five sailors were rescued yesterday after surviving for seven days adrift in a life raft in storm-tossed seas. The group, including two Britons, had run out of supplies of food and water.
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An air-sea rescue was under way in the North Atlantic last night after a fire on a former British submarine sold to Canada in a controversial deal left the vessel drifting at sea.
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Rescue operations Friday saved scores of people from two ships that ran aground in stormy waters off the British coast, but efforts to evacuate the injured captain of third distressed vessel had to be called off.
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A British rescue ship reached a Canadian submarine and its 57 sailors stranded for nearly 24 hours in high seas in the north Atlantic after a fire caused a loss of power.
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(CP) - An 18-metre fishing vessel is on fire off the coast of Newfoundland, and a Cormorant search and rescue helicopter has been dispatched to pluck six people from the water.
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More bodies are pulled from the sea after Tuesday's speedboat accident off the eastern coast of Thailand.
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - At least eight people were  killed Tuesday as a bushfire burned out of control across a  southern Australia peninsula, others were missing and six more  were rescued after they escaped into the sea, officials said.
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Further details of the fire which crippled a Canadian submarine and claimed the life of one of its seamen, as well as the heroic rescue effort to return the vessel
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AN Australian navy frigate has plucked 15 people to safety from a burning and sinking Indonesian boat. The dramatic rescue was made 200 nautical miles east of Singapore.
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TUNIS, Oct 9  The death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying North African migrants across the Mediterranean has risen to 53, with 11 passengers still missing, Tunisian government officials said ...
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Helicopters rescued 10 sailors from a French trimaran that overturned off the east coast of New Zealand on Monday.