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The fire on the 'Sounion' has finally been brought under control and partially extinguished. A team of international experts began fighting the fires on Sep 23 and has since achieved promising results, the Joint Maritime Information Centre (JMIC) announced on Oct 1.

On Oct 1 at 8.11 p.m. Canary Islands time, the MRCC of Salvamento Marítimo in Tenerife has coordinated a search operation for a drifting cayuco off El Hierro. The search area coincidds with therecent emergency with 48 stiull missing people. The cayuco with 63 people on board, among them 56 men, five women and two minors, was located, in apparent good condition, by the Sasemar 103 aircraft about seven nautical miles southsouthwest of La Restinga. The 'Guardamar Calíope' proceeded to assist and transferred the migrants to La Estaca due to the bad state of the sea.

Beached at Alang 13.09.24

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Two ships have been attacked in the Red Sea on Oct 1, 2024. The 'Minoan Courage', en route from Duqm to Suez, has been targeted about 97 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah with initial reports suggesting it has been hit by a missile. Short time before, the tanker 'Cordelia Moon', en route from Sikka, became the first ship to be targeted by the Houthi terrorists in 29 days on the early morning hours. An uncrewed surface vessel (USV) slammed into the ship about 64 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah. The ballast tank 6 at port side has been punctured, and the ship was taking on water. The crew was reported to be safe.

The 'Blue Lagoon', enroute from Taizhou to Singapore, got in distress southwest of Taiwan’s Orchid Island with 19 crew members, among them seven Ukrainians, nine Egyptians and three Russians, on board amid the super Typhoon Krathon with winds of 198kph and gusts of up to 245 kph as it headed toward Taiwan. The crew decided to abandon ship after the vessel tilted due to flooding. Bad weather prevented a helicopter rescue, and a coast guard vessel was heading to the area.

The family of the 8-year-old Daniel Jiang, who was airlifted from the 'Royal Princess' due to a medical emergency was able to resume their family vacation when their ship docked in Los Angeles. The boy was on a two-week trip from Vancouver to Hawaii with his mother and brother when he began to feel sick. As the boy’s condition worsened, it was eventually discovered he was suffering from appendicitis which would require emergency surgery. Far from their next stop and with foggy conditions proving to be challenging for the crew of the Royal Princess, the U.S. Coast Guard was called to the scene to airlift Daniel and his family to a hospital so he could undergo emergency appendix surgery, which was a success and on Sep 28, after he was given the medical “all-clear,” he and his brother and mother were able to continue their cruise to Hawaii by re-boarding the 'Royal Princess' in Los Angeles. Coincidentally, the resumption of their cruise also coincided with Daniel’s birthday. The family was “greeted with an outpouring of excitement and warm wishes from the crew” when they stepped back onto the cruise ship.

On the early morning of Oct 1, the 'Pelagos', en route from Tanger-Med to Marolles-Sur-Seine, requested the medical evacuation of a crew member of French nationality, when the vessel was located about 1.5 nautical miles south of La Garrofa. The 'Salvamar Spica' was mobilized to assist and embarked the patient, who was then transferred to Almería, where an ambulance was waiting for further transport to hospital. Report with photo: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1841071113859731738

scrapped at Esbjerg 09/2024

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Beached at Chittagong 01.10.24

Two corporations that operated the 'PS Dream ', the Prive Overseas Marine LLC and the Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret, were sentenced in a federal court in New Orleans on Sep 27, 2024, to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete four years of probation. The companies pleaded guilty in May to charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS). Separate charges were filed against Captain Abdurrahman Korkmaz, 37, a Turkish national who was the ship’s master. On Sep 10, the court sentenced him to eight months in prison for an APPS offense and obstructing the U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation. The charges pertained to the investigation of the 'PS Dream' when it was heading to New Orleans in Jan 2023. Senior corporate managers were aware that Korkmaz had arranged to discharge oil-contaminated waste from a residual tank on deck into the water. The captain ordered the crew to pump the waste overboard and clean the tank with soap. The seamen rigged a portable pump to empty the contents overboard over three days. The defendants falsified the vessel’s oil record book by omitting the discharge. One of the crew members alerted the Coast Guard and shared videos of the discharge and resulting oil sheen. When the ship arrived in Louisiana, another crew member came forward and gave the Coast Guard a recording of an officer discussing the discharge.

The 'Glen Sannox' has started its final round of sea trials ahead of being handed over to CMAL next month. The overdue and overbudget ferry was spotted sailing on the Clyde on the morning of Sep 30, as its belated handover to the Scottish Government's ferry procurement body CMAL was coming nearer. The ship is due to finally be handed over in mid-October, more than six years later than her original delivery date. Ferguson Marine, who have been working on the 'Glen Sannox' and her sister ship 'Glen Rosa' for close to a decade, had previously stated that they intended to hand over the ship on Sep 30, but this date was pushed back by two weeks due to a last-minute hitch. After the trials have been completed, the yard will also have to carry out a review of the findings , a demonstration of the engine overhaul carried out on the vessel, final sign-off on all of its components and approval from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and marine firm Lloyds Register. The ferry is being constructed for the Scottish Government asset company CMAL to lease to its ferry operator CalMac and it is set to serve the Ardrossan to Brodick crossing to the Isle of Arran. Report with photo: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ferry-glen-sannox-starts-final-101059584.html

The U.S. Coast Guard reported that the crew aboard the 'Polar Prince', supporting the 'Titan', felt a shudder when the submersible imploded deep underwater. The five passengers aboard the sub were killed instantly: Stockton Rush, the co-founder and CEO of the sub's maker, OceanGate, French explorer Paul Henri Nargeolet, British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman. The statement was provided to the board, when the master was asked if he or crew members heard anything indicating the OceanGate submersible imploded: "The answer from the master was, 'With the benefit of hindsight, I now believe I felt the Polar Prince shudder at around the time communications were reportedly lost, but at the time, we thought nothing of it. It was slight,'" A former OceanGate employee testified during the hearing on Sep 28 that he resigned from the submersible company after Rush told him he would "buy a congressman" to make problems with its 'Titan' go away. Matthew McCoy was an active duty member of the U.S. Coast Guard prior to joining OceanGate as an operations technician in April 2017 as the company was building the first prototype, which was never used on Titanic dives. He said he quit six months later, in September 2017, a day after his conversation with Rush.

On Oct 1, the 9-meter sailing yacht 'Mango', with two crew members on board, requested towing assistance after having lost the propeller near the Isla de Lobos. The CCS Las Palmas of Salvamento Maríitimo mobilized the 'Salvamar Al Nair' to the position, which took the boat in tow and safely pulled it to Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura.

Beached at Aliaga 11.09.24 as Dead Vessel towed by Christos XXXIV (IMO 7907415)

arrived Chittagong Anchorage 30.09.24

The ' Cordelia Moon', en route from Sikka, became the first ship to be targeted by the Houthi terrorists in 29 days on the early morning of Oct 1, 2024. An uncrewed surface vessel (USV) slammed into the ship about 64 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah. The ballast tank 6 at port side has been punctured, and the ship was taking on water. The crew was reported to be safe. Another ship, the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier 'Minoan Courage', en route from Duqm to Suez, has been targeted about 97 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah with initial reports suggesting it has been hit by a missile.

The bodies of two men, were burned to death in the fire which broke out following an explosion aboard the 'Banglar Jyoti' at Patenga in the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram, have been recovered. The identities of them were not known immediately. The Fire Service's Agrabad control room had dployed eight units from the Agrabad, Bandar, Karnaphuli EPZ, and CEPZ stations, which recovered the two charred bodies.Coast Guard, Navy, and the Eastern Refinery’s firefighting teams also joined with the fire service members. The iire have occurred due to the accumulation of flammable gas in the foreüeak store. The seven-member investigation committee, formed by the BPC, presented their findings on Sep 30. Deck Cadet Saurabh Kumar Saha from Jhenaidah, BSC Foreman Nurul Islam from Chattogram, and worker Md Harun from Kishoreganj died in the explosion and fire. Reports with photos and video: https://maritime-executive.com/article/three-dead-as-shuttle-tanker-explodes-in-bangladesh-port https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/mv-jyoti-fire-report-reveals-accumulation-flammable-gas-954886

The 'EM Longetivity', reported to be scrapped three years ago, took on the identity of an actual ship that is no longer in service in an attempt to evade economic sanctions. The ship decommissioned in December 2021. At the time, the ship was reportedly sent to a scrapyard. Aship with the same IMO as the tanker appeared at a port in Dalian on Sep. 23, 2024, where it partially unloaded its cargo before sailing across the Yellow Sea. On Sep 30, the ship docked at the port city of Yantai. While there is the possibility that the 'EM Longevity' was retrieved from the scrapyard where it was left several years ago, experts of the University of Copenhagen’s Ocean Infrastructure Research Group estimated it like a vessel that’s signaling that it’s legitimate just so that it can sail under the radar. There were other concerning signs that indicated the vessel was posing as the retired ship. Specifically, data compiled by VesselTracker found that the ship sails under the flag of Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland. During its 20 years of service, the 'EM Longevity' had sailed under the Singaporean flag. The IMO registration number for the 'EM Longevity' reportedly does not list a current manager, owner, or insurer. These patterns are eerily similar to those used in the “dark fleet". Russia has been accused of using a massive shadow fleet, filled with these vessels to get around European Union sanctions amid the yearslong war in Ukraine. Reports indicated that China has been importing crude from such dark fleets as it remains the world’s largest importer of oil. While the United States has issued sanctions on crude exports from nations like Russia and Iran, China has remained a consistent customer. Identified dark ships have been known to travel to and from Iran in recent months. Similarly, the ship appearing to pose as the 'EM Longevity' also sailed in waters near Iran around Aug. 11 before making its way to China.