sea rescue
Saving drowning sailors
Sea rescue is the act of saving people from danger at sea—from sinking ships, capsized boats, or the water itself.
Coast guards and lifeboat crews perform sea rescues professionally, while passing vessels may assist in emergencies: The sea rescue operation saved all twelve crew members.
The term covers both the organized effort and the event itself.
- coast guardMaritime safety and rescue service
- coast guard cutterArmed vessel for maritime patrol
- lifeboatEmergency vessel for survivors
- flaresPyrotechnic distress signals
- life jacketsWearable flotation devices
winching · abandon ship · shipwrecks · crew · thermal blankets · towing · SOS · emergency flare · mayday · RNLI · medevac · survivor · inflatable rafts · distress signal · rope · ship captains · sonar systems · stranded
- fisheries and coast guardcoast guard, fishing, patrol, boats, fish
- sea rescuelifeboat, lifeguard, coastguard, SOS, life raft
- maritime safetylife rafts, lifebuoys, lifesaving equipment, safety equipment, flares
- air rescuemedevac, air ambulance, airlift, life flight, medevac helicopter
- coastal serviceslighthouse, coast guard, lifeguard, ferry, harbor pilot
- DunkirkDunkirk spirit, evacuation routes, Dunkerque, channel crossing, perimeter defense
sea rescueshipwreck
Destroyed vessel at sea
maritime disaster · drowning · marooning · casting adrift · sinking
sea rescuenaval attack
Warfare waged from ships
piracy · torpedo attack · scuttling · naval bombardment · U-boat attack