Rescue underway of 37 people on sinking yacht
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A rescue operation to save 37 people on a sinking yacht off Australia's northeast coast on Tuesday involved helicopters winching people to safety and passengers climbing tether ropes to reach a nearby island.
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Fourteen people were killed and an  unknown number were missing after a boat with a capacity for  150 passengers sank off the southern Philippine island of  Mindanao, officials said on Sunday.
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Lifeboats and an RAF helicopter take part in a rescue after a woman goes into the sea off mid Wales.
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A major rescue operation involving helicopters was under way on the coast of southwest England after dozens of people became trapped in their cars and homes by rising floodwaters, emergency services said.
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A newly-wed couple are among those rescued after a ship was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly.
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French and Spanish rescue aircraft and boats went to the assistance of a cruise ship limping in the Mediterranean with more than 700 people aboard Monday after a storm knocked out its engines, maritime ...
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A tugboat which sank last month claiming the lives of three crewmen is being transported to a dock.
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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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MIAMI - Coast Guard crews rescued six people after their $1.2 million sailboat sank off the Florida coast, all captured by television helicopter cameras showing the vessel disappear under the waves.
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The three-man crew of a fishing vessel are rescued off the Pembrokeshire coast, after their boat caught fire.
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Salvage crews are trying to recover a stricken ferry and trawler that ran aground off the UK in severe weather.
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A newly-wed couple are among those lifted to safety after a ship was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly.
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Rescuers were searching for around 33   people still missing on Tuesday after their boat sank en route   from Madagascar to Comoros in the Indian Ocean, the French   officer in charge of the operation said.
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Thirty-three people were missing after a ship heading from Madagascar to the Comoros Islands sank in the Indian Ocean this weekend in bad weather, an official said Monday.
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A family adrift at sea for nearly 60 hours was rescued off the coast of Alaska's Kodiak Island this weekend by a group of federal researchers.
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Lifeboat crews saved the lives of three people after a pleasure boat went down off Whitby.   The former fishing vessel Iled'yeu hit motor tanker Dutch Progress four miles off the town soon after 10pm last night.   It quickly took in water from a damaged bough and began to sink.
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An operation is underway to rescue the crew of a burning fishing boat off the coast of Donegal.