sea rescues
Maritime emergency responses
Sea rescues are operations to save people in distress at sea—from sinking vessels, capsized boats, or the water itself.
Coast guards, navies, and volunteer lifeboat crews conduct sea rescues, often in dangerous conditions: The coast guard performed a dramatic sea rescue in forty-foot swells.
The term covers everything from pulling a struggling swimmer from the surf to evacuating passengers from a foundering ship.
- coast guardMaritime safety and rescue service
- emergency beaconsDevices transmitting location during crises
- crewWorking team aboard
- ropeThick twisted fibers
- survivorOne still alive after
flare guns · winches · capsized · abandon ship · emergency signaling · sonar systems · survival kits · maritime law · rough seas · mayday · SOS signal · RNLI · hypothermia · storm surges · lifeboat · life jackets · distress · inflatable rafts
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- rescuesave, help, SAR, assist, lifeline
sea rescuesshipwrecking
Destroying a vessel catastrophically
scuttling · shipwrecks · sinkings · piracy · naval warfare