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On the night of March 4, 2025, the pilot Captain Serdinç Koç, who was on duty to provide pilotage services to the 'Ocean Euphrosyne' off the coast of Gelibolu, accidentally fell into the sea in the Dardanelles Strait, With the rapid and effective intervention of the boat crew at the time of the incident, the captain was rescued in a short time and transferred to the hospital. His health condition was good. Report with photo: https://turkdeniz.com/canakkale-bogazinda-kilavuz-kaptan-denize-dustu

The 'Ocean Diligence', while underway in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) of the Singapore Strait (SS), was boarded by five perpetrators, about 4.4 nautical miles off Pulau Cula, in pos. 1° 6.4' N 103° 44.48' E, on Feb 26, 2025, at 5.20 a.m. Nothing was reported stolen, and no crew members were injured.

The 'Ifestos', while underway in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) of the Singapore Strait (SS), was boarded by six perpetrators, who were armed with hammers, about 0.9 nautical miles off the Takong Kecil Lighthouse, in pos. 1° 6.62' N 103° 44' E, on Feb 28, 2025, at 12.30 a.m. Nothing was reported stolen, and no crew members were injured.

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On the early morning of March 5, two cayucos were escorted to La Restinga. The 'Salvamar Acrux' accompanied a cayuco, which was located seven nautical miles south of La Restinga with 61 sub-Saharan people on board, among them 13 women. They disembarked at 4.30 a.m. local time. At 5.10 a.m., the 'Salvamar Adhara' disembarked the occupants of another cayuco in in La Restinga . The boat had been located 8.7 nautical miles away with 44 sub-Saharan people on board, among them four women and three minors. The responses were coordinated by the CCS Tenerife of Salvamento Maritimo.

The latest ship accused of damaging cables off Taiwan had a simple way of changing identity. It was able to change its name many times as the crews simply replaced three steel plates, so it has also recently traded as the 'Hongtai 68' and 'Shanmei 7'. The captain of the vessel – dubbed in local media as the ‘thousand faces ship’ – had on an earlier occasion been caught entering Taiwan with false documents.

The 'Humanity 1' arrived at the port of Ravenna on March 2, 2025, after rescuing 71 migrants, including 16 unaccompanied minors and nine women, in the Central Mediterranean. The majority of the migrants came from Eritrea (51 persons) and Ethiopia (nine persons). The rest were from Nigeria, The Gambia, Sudan, Cameroon, Benin, the Ivory Coast, Niger, Mali, and Togo. The group included 46 men, 16 unaccompanied minors and nine women. Among them were three families. 50 people were transferred to nearby Bologna, 80 kilometers inland from Ravenna; the others will stay in Ravenna. The migrants had been rescued on Feb 24 from a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean over 1,600 kilometers away from the port of Ravenna. Some survivors had burns caused by fuel; some said they were tortured in Libya and show visible signs of it. Some survivors were suffering from pulmonary infections. The NGO had asked the Italian authorities to assign them a closer port, citing the mental and physical health of the survivors on board the 'Humanity 1' and worsening weather conditions, but their request had not been granted. Report with photo: https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/63181/italy-71-migrants-disembark-from-rescue-ship-humanity-1

The Dutch salvage company Blue Tack has been commissioned by the owner of the Curacao flagged deck cargo pontoon 'CC Atlantique', 9119 gt (IMO: 9562245), which has remained stuck on beacon 18, one of the beacons along Flintrännan south of the Öresund Bridge, since March 1 at 4 a.m. The 'Kamarina' with the coupled barge was passing northbound through Flintrännan when the barge came too far to starboard and struck one of the lighthouses. How long it would take to salvage the barge. was unclear. The work continued on March 3, including diving at the grounded barge. Also the tug's winch is said to have been damaged in the incident. The shipping company has therefore sent another tug, the 'Carlo Magno', to the scene which arrived on the early morning of March 2. At the same time, the tug 'Svitzer Edda' has been called to assisted. Shipping was not affected by the incident, even though a navigation warning is in place.

The 'Ailama', while underway in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) of the Singapore Strait (SS), was boarded by four to five perpetrators, who were armed with gun like objects, about 2.3 nautical miles off Pulau Cula, in pos. 1° 4.65' N 103° 42.43' E, on March 3, 2025, at 05.00 a.m. The intruder stole engine spares and escaped.

The 'Joseph Tezanos' repatriated two migrants to the Dominican Republic on March 1, following a Puerto Rico police interdiction of a suspect vessel with five people on board just off Aguadilla. One of them, having a prior criminal history in the United States, is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico on charges of attempted illegally re-entry into the United States in violation of Title 8, U.S.C., Section 1326 b(2). The interdiction occurred on the early morning of Feb. 28, when two Puerto Rico Police Joint Force of Rapid Action (FURA) marine units sighted a white colored, 20-foot, panga-style vessel, approximately three nautical miles off the Aguadilla coastline. Coast Guard Sector San Juan watchstanders diverted the Coast Guard Cutter to the scene. Shortly thereafter, the 'Joseph Tezanos' arrived on-scene and deployed the cutter’s over-the-horizon small boat and embarked the five migrants; three men who claimed to be Dominican Republic nationals, and a man and a woman who claimed to be Russian nationals. The 'Joseph Tezanos’ transferred the two Dominican Republic nationals to Dominican Republic Navy authorities for repatriation in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, on March 1. The crew also transferred the man who was facing federal prosecution to U.S. Border Patrol Ramey Sector agents in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Saturday. The two Russians were transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations special agents' custody in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on MArch 3 for investigation and removal. Report with photo: https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4096601/coast-guard-repatriates-2-aliens-to-dominican-republic-transfers-1-alien-to-us/

Beached at Alang 05.03.25

On the morning of March 4, 2025, the 1st Port Department of Tzelepi of the Central Port Authority of Piraeus was informed by the Captain of the 'Ekaterini P.' about a mechanical failure, ahead of the ship’s departure from the port on the route to Serifos-Sifnos-Kimolos-Folegandros-Sikinos-Ios-Thira with 195 passengers, 46 private vehicles and 15 trucks on board. The Port Authority banned the ferry from sailing until the damage was repaired and a certificate of class maintenance was presented by the monitoring classification society.

An inquiry has been launched into a dry dock flood which has left the 'Hjaltland' out of action at the Rosyth Shipyard on the night of Feb 20,2025, as a consequence of flooding in the pump room. The work that needed to be done following the flooding was including stripping out and testing all the pumps. Breakers, circuit boards and control panels had to be replaced, cables had to be stripped back and replaced.”there has been a very intensive set of works undertaken since the dry dock incident. It a was unclear when the vessel is due to return to schedule.

The "Sailing Yacht A" has been moored off the Italian Adriatic port of Trieste for exactly three years. The owner therefore took the matter to the European Court of Justice. The Russian billionaire Andrej Melnitschenko filed a lawsuit against his yacht being arrested by EU sanctions. Since Melnichenko is considered to be part of the extended circle of Russian oligarchs who profit from the war and from Russia's state trade, the ship was detained on March 11, 2022, with reference to the sanctions imposed by the EU. Since then, the oligarch has been fighting from Switzerland for the return of his yacht. On Jan 22, 2025, he suffered a defeat in a lawsuit before the First Chamber of the European Court of Justice. He had sued for the return of the property because, in his view, there was no evidence of his ownership of the Russian companies EuroChem and the coal company Suek. He had also previously transferred the "A" to his wife Aleksandra. The yacht's registration was changed from Bermuda via the Isle of Man to Gabon. However, the court in Luxembourg did not accept Melnichenko's arguments. Melnichenko's lawyers had referred to property rights, the right to respect for private life and errors in the assessment of the sanctions list. The court, however, followed the EU's view because there are enough accessible press articles and company websites in Russia in which the oligarch is listed as the owner of the companies. The trigger for inclusion in the sanctions list was participation in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin himself. On February 24, 2022, the plaintiff met with Putin and other members of the Russian government along with 36 businessmen to discuss the effects of the Western sanctions, thereby clarifying his role as a member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle. The 16-page judgment states that Melnichenko was included in the lists because he is "a Russian industrialist who owns the leading fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and the coal company Suek." Even the transfer of ownership shares in the yacht and companies to his wife Aleksandra does not change the sanctions, as he continues to benefit from the assets he transferred to his wife, according to the judgment. The "Saling Yacht A" therefore remains under the direct control of the Italian state, which is also responsible for its maintenance. Italy has spent around 27 million euros on this over the past three years.

One crew member of the 'Basset', en route from Tanjung Pelepas to Pengerang, was injured during an unauthorised boarding by an unknown number of perpetrators, armed with gun like objects, in the Singapore Strait, 3.2 nautical miles off the Takong Kecil Lighthouse in pos. 1° 8' N 103° 45.68' E, on Feb 28, 2025, at 7 a.m. The 29-year-old Indian national has been taken conscious to hospital for medical treatment. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) was alerted to the boarding of the chemical tanker, that took plac outside Singapore territorial waters. The intruders stole engine spares. All crew members have been accounted for. The authority had issued safety broadcasts to vessels, telling them to maintain a vigilant watch. The Singapore Police Coast Guard (PCG) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) were activated to assist the tanker’s crew.

The 'DSM Rose', while underway in the eastbound lane of the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) of the Singapore Strait (SS), was boarded by five perpetrators, who were armed with gun like objects, about 0.6 nautical miles off the Takong Kecil Lighthouse, in pos. 1° 5.27' N 103° 43.27' E, on Feb 28, 2025, at 1.22 a.m. Nothing was reported stolen, and no crew members were injured.

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On the early morning of March 5, two cayucos were escorted to La Restinga. The 'Salvamar Acrux' accompanied a cayuco, which was located seven nautical miles south of La Restinga with 61 sub-Saharan people on board, among them 13 women. They disembarked at 4.30 a.m. local time. At 5.10 a.m., the 'Salvamar Adhara' disembarked the occupants of another cayuco in in La Restinga . The boat had been located 8.7 nautical miles away with 44 sub-Saharan people on board, among them four women and three minors. The responses were coordinated by the CCS Tenerife of Salvamento Maritimo.

On March 3, 2025, the 'Oris Jul' was detained in Antalya with seven deficiencies, two of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Fire safety - Fire fighting equipment and appliances Not as required 2) Pollution Prevention - Oil filtering equipment Inoperative The vessel was released again on March and left the port en route to Sulina with an ETA as of March 9. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

The 'Aurora' has departed from Lampedusa on March 4 and was sailing to the oil rig 'Miskar' off Tunisia to rescue a group of migrants who have been stranded there for four days. A reconnaissance plane operated by Sea Watch first sighted the group on the oil platform on March 1, 2025, with an empty rubber dinghy floating nearby. The 32 people, including women and children, had departed from Libya. The platform was unfit to take care of them. One of the migrants has allegedly died, according to the NGO Mediterranea saving Humans and Sea Watch.