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On the afternoon of Nov 19, the 'Salvamar Adhara' has rescued 74 people from a cayuco, which had been located by the SAR helicopter Helimer 201. The castaways were taken to the port of La Restinga. Report with photo: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1858937702865162282

The 'Aita Mari' has rescued 53 people on Nov 19, most of them young men and many of them minors, from a boat that had been adrift for three days in the Mediterranean Sea. The rescue took place after receiving an alert at 5.29 a.m., which was sent by AlrmPhone via email. The lack of response from the emergency coordination centres forced the 'Aita Mari' to proceed with the rescue. The ship was 15 nautical miles south of the boat at the time of receiving the alarm and headed for the area. The castaways, mostly from Eritrea, Ethiopia and South Sudan, showed signs of dehydration, dizziness, exhaustion and in some cases bronchitis due to prolonged exposure to the cold. The medical crew on board the 'Aita Mari' carries out the supervision tasks of the most serious cases. The port of disembarkation has been assigned to Catania with an ETA as of 5:00 p.m., and where the crew hoped to take shelter for the next few days due to the forecast of a strong storm in the area.

The 'Atina', which sank in the waters off the Saline beach in Olbia following a fire that broke out at the stern on Aug 10, was unloaded on the morning of Nov 19 at the Asi dock in the Porto Torres industrial port, after the wreck was recovered on Nov 3 by the Resolve Marine from the seabed using the barge 'Conquest MB1'. On Nov 16, the wreck started the voyage on the deck of the 'Conquest MB1', which was towed by the tug 'Cala Azzurra', from the Cocciani industrial dock to the port of Porto Torres. On Nov 17, it moored at the Asi Riva dock. After the yacht has been unloaded, using the newly employed travel lift, it will be transferred to an adjacent shipyard area, at Sardinia Nautic Assistance, the company that takes care of the subsequent refitting or eventual demolition activities. In the meantime, the seabed reclamation activities at the sinking site continued, carried out by the divers of the Olbia Coast Guard. Report with photo: https://www.unionesarda.it/en/sardinia/from-olbia-to-porto-torres-operations-to-unload-the-wreck-of-the-super-yacht-atina-have-begun-fcz7vze5

The "Yi Peng 3", en route from Ust Luga in Russia to Port Said, was considered to be behind the damage to the C-Lion1 submarine cable between Finland and Germany, which was severed in the early hours of Nov 18, 2024. C-Lion1 runs for more than 1,170 kilometers from Helsinki to Rostock. Data shows that the ship was sailing over the area in question at about the same time as the damage occurred and partially made course corrections. The ship stopped for almost 90 minutes on the morning of Nov 18 south of Öland, drifted and made two circles. It is unclear whether the freighter also dropped its anchor and it dragged along the seabed. The Danish Navy reacted to the incident on the afternoon. First, the frigate "Niels Juel" was sent to the "Yi Peng 3". During the night of Nov 18, the Danish naval command also sent the patrol boat "Rota" to the scene. It took over the escort of the "Yi Ping 3", which was en route from Ust Luga and through the Kadet Trench to the Great Belt. On the morning of Nov 19, the frigate "HDMS Hvidbjörnen" took over the task near the island Langeland. The Danish ship followed the freighter, which had set course for the Kattegat, at a slow speed. There were no abnormalities with the "Yi Peng 3" when it passed through the Kadet Trench and Fehmarnbelt. If the "Yi Peng 3" caused the damage with its anchor, this should be proven, but it will leave the Baltic Sea on the morning of Nov 20 at the latest and enter the North Sea near Skagen. The investigators would then only hope to carry out an investigation on board after the ship returns to an EU port. On Nov 17 at around 10 a.m. LT the 218-kilometer-long BCS East-West submarine cable between Sventoji in Lithuania and the Swedish island of Gotland also failed, according to the Lithuanian landline and mobile operator Telia Lietuva, which belongs to the Swedish Telia Company. The country is connected to the Internet via three cables from Telia Lietuva. This limits the transmission capacity. The Swedish authorities are now investigating possible sabotage. The crime is currently classified as sabotage, but this could still change, the police said. The Swedish Coastguard and the army have recorded shipping traffic that corresponds to the damage to the two cables in the Baltic Sea. The Sea Lion submarine cable, which consists of eight pairs of fiber optic cables, was manufactured by the Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) in Calais, France. The cable is 1,170 kilometers long and weighs 3,355 tons. It was delivered in Finland from the cable-laying ship 'Ile de Brehat'. Report with photo: https://omni.se/satellitdata-visar-kinesiskt-fartyg-pa-bada-platserna/a/mPVKx4

On Nov 17, the 'Life Support' arrived at the port of Ancona with 49 rescued migrants on board, including six women and six unaccompanied minors from Syria, Egypt, and Bangladesh. The rescue took place on Nov 12 in international waters within the Maltese SAR area in the Central Mediterranean. The migrants had departed from Al-Zawiya, Libya, aboard a small, overcrowded fiberglass boat that was ill-equipped for a Mediterranean crossing and lacked adequate safety measures. It was the first time that the authorities assigned the ship the port of Ancona, but overall it was the fifth time that it was sent to the northern Atlantic, which means long navigation away from the SAR area, therefore a long absence from the operational area.