Maritime and Coastguard Agency News

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 7 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during February 2011 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.

At 00.27 am Falmouth Coastguard received a Mayday distress call from the fishing vessel Ben My Chree with five crew onboard.

The efforts of two individuals and a team are to be recognised by the award of the Chief Coastguards Commendations 2010.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is holding public meetings in Kirkwall on Tuesday 15 March and Ullapool on Wednesday16 March 2011, about the proposed Coastguard modernisation programme.

Humber Coastguard sent a Coastguard Rescue Team and a lifeboat to the rescue of a man who got into difficulty in the water off Amble south jetty after going in for his fishing rod.

Portland Coastguard today co-ordinated the rescue of a 36 year old woman who had become stuck in mud on the east side of Lulworth Cove, Dorset.

Four fishing vessels and a lifeboat have saved another fishing vessel after it started to sink off the north coast of the Isle of Rum this morning.

A male motorcyclist was rescued from the mud this evening after he rode his motorbike off a harbour wall and into the mud in Watchet Harbour.

Over the last month Holy Island Coastguard Rescue Team has been called to attend six incidents involving vehicles becoming trapped on the Holy Island Causeway. Many of the motorists involved have dismissed visible warning signs and causeway crossing time tables, risking their lives to cross as the tide begins to flood the causeway. They are effectively driving into the North Sea.