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Divers hoisted from disabled wreck dive ship

On the morning of June 14, 2025, the 'Diver Star' was disabled on the North Sea due to engine problems and drifted off the coast of Koksijde, A rescue operation was immediately launched, including the NH90 rescue helicopter. All 12 divers aboard the wreck dive ship were safely hoisted and brought to safety. The ship made it back to Nieuwpoort at around noon. Report with video: https://www.hbvl.be/binnenland/schip-tijdlang-stuurloos-op-noordzee-na-motorproblemen-twaalf-wrakduikers-gered-met-helikopter/71914966.html

Missing diver rescued off Dunkirk

On July 03, 2021, the CROSS Griz-Nez was alerted by the MRCC of Ostend in Belgium that a diver from the 'Dive Star' had not come to the surfaace 17 nautical miles north of Dunkirk. The CROSS Griz-Nez deployed an NH90 helicopter of the Belgian Air Force, stationed in Koksijde as well as the patrol vessel PSP 'Cormorant' of the French Navy and also broadcasts a Mayday Relay to which the patrol boat 'Tyne' of the British Royal Navy responded. The Belgian helicopter and the patrol boat quickly arrived on the area, and after about one hour of search, the 47-year-old diver was found alive by the NH90 helicopter of the Belgian Air Force. He was hoisted and taken to the Ypres hospital in Belgium.

Diver lost off Boulogne-sur-Mer

On June 5, 2017, the CROSS Gris-Nez coordinated a research operation off Boulogne-sur-Mer. The "Dive Star" had reported early in the morning that one of its divers was missing. Indeed, following a dive in about 40 meters depth. The CROSS Gris-Nez initiated an SAR operation involving the French customs patrol boat "Jacques Oudart Fourmentin" stationed in Boulogne-sur-Mer, the SNSM-boat from Boulogne-sur, a patrol boat of the Maritime Affairs, the "Fort de l'Heurt" from Boulogne-sur-Mer and a Dauphin SP helicopter of the French Navy base in Le Touquet. The Coastal Maritime Surveillance Authority (VCSM) deployed the "Scarpe" of the water police in Boulogne-sur-Mer, and a Belgian NH-90 helicopter took off from Koksijde. The search operation was complicated by unfavorable weather in the area. The "Dive Star" proceeded to Dunkerque for investigations, where the crew was interrogated by the officers of the "Escaut" from Dunkerque. After a whole day of unsuccessful search, the maritime prefect of the Channel and the North Sea decided the end of the active search in the early evening. The nautical flights and patrols which are part of the permanent surveillance of the maritime zone were to be oriented towards this zone in the forthcoming days.