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DALI
Unified Command dive teams have recovered the body of a missing person at the Key Bridge incident site in Baltimore on April 5 at approximately 10:30 a.m. The recovered person was identified as 38-year-old Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval. The dive teams located what they believed to be the missing construction worker and notified the Maryland Department of State Police. Maryland State Police Underwater Recovery Team deployed in coordination with dive teams from allied law enforcement partners and recovered Suazo-Sandoval. Maryland State Police investigators, along with an FBI Victim Specialist, Baltimore County Critical Response Team, Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs met with and notified Suazo-Sandoval’s family
HDMS IVER HUITFELDT
The 'Iver Huitfeldt' used both missiles and cannons to shoot down four drones that on March 9 were heading for the frigate and a number of civilian ships in the Red Sea. The ship's commander emphasized that the frigate was at no time defenseless. According to new information that emerged when the press met the crew in Korsør on the afternoon of April 4, crews shot down the first three drones using Sea Sparrow missiles guided to the target by the frigate's Swedish-made Ceros 2000 weapons control system. The system has two radar positions on the frigate, one above the two long-range guns on the foredeck, and one on the roof of the hangar above the ship's close-in defense gun. Why the crew used the Ceros 2000 weapons control system, which has a shorter range than the frigate's central and far more expensive Apar weapons control system, there was so far no explanation, but it can be about the distance to the goals. To combat the fourth and final drone, the crew chose to switch to the Apar weapon control system. However, this system did not work, so the crew switched back to the Ceros 2000 system. At the same time, the weapon type was changed from missiles to the ship's long-range main guns, which, with the help of several grenades, 10-50 percent of which exploded too quickly, shot down the drone. Why they chose to change the weapon type from the successful missiles to the ship's long-range main guns, there was so far no explanation., but it can be about the distance to the target. There was still uncertainty about the sequence of events and which systems and weapon systems were used, when and why. During the coming week, a third and more thorough account of the incident is expected to be ready. However, just like the previous statements, it will be confidential.
DALI
While dive teams were focusing on surveys of the 'Dali' to support the planning for the recovery of the vessel, assets were being positioned to begin the delicate operation of removing undamaged containers from the bow of the vessel. One large crane has now been positioned at the foreship. Two of the cranes onsite at the recovery operation have been assigned to move containers from the bow. No timeline has been released though for when the container operation would begin. The salvage teams need to stabilize and clear boxes from the bow of the 'Dali' to get access to the embedded steel and roadway, but would need a window of good weather to conduct the operations. Some of the boxes were ripped open but the first concern seemsed to be on the boxes that were leaning and raising danger for the crews that need to access the bow of the vessel. Crews need to reach each box to secure lines to the crane for the lifting operation, and then they will be lowered to a barge alongside the ship. The vessel's hull is resting on the bridge footings in addition where portions of the bridge steel are embedded in the hull. The divers’ primary objectives were to assess any damage sustained by the vessel and pinpoint the exact locations where it is grounded. This information is being used to develop the salvage plan for the safe recovery of the vessel. Report with photos: https://maritime-executive.com/article/crane-positioned-to-lift-boxes-as-divers-survey-dali-for-salvage-plan
AL MESSILAH
After the 'Al Messilah' docked in East London on April 2, 2024, the NSPCA has been site to screen all animals bound for the vessel which has been loading about 60,000 sheep, 1,500 cattle and 200 goats destined for slaughter in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The vessel was expected to leave East London harbour either late on April 5 or on April 6. The NSPCA has now confirmed that through veterinary laboratory testing together with visual examination, the presence of contagious ecthyma, an infectious dermatitis of sheep and goats, which is contagious to humans too, among the animals in the feedlot. The inspectors observed lesions on the lips of numerous sheep in the feedlot, which raised suspicions of contagious ecthyma. During the course of the disease, which lasts up to four weeks, affected animals can go off feed, lose condition and may develop serious secondary infections at the lesion sites. This posed a serious concern in terms of the welfare of the animals on board the 'Al Messilah', especially those who were not yet showing clinical signs, but who could suffer on the vessel during their three-week journey. Should this shipment be rejected by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the South African government has confirmed with the NSPCA that South Africa will not be able to accept the returning animals. The NSPCA has pulled animals from the feedlot that are displaying clinical signs, although the fate of those still to show clinical signs were a serious cause for concern.
MARE JONIO
A Libyan patrol boat fired at the 'Mare Jonio' while rescuing migrants on April 4, 2024. The ship from the so-called Libyan coast guard intervened violently during the response to a vessel in danger in international waters. The Libyan militiamen fired shots into the water and into the air, creating panic and causing several people to fall into the water. The 'Mare Jonio' was recovering and protecting the shipwrecked people. The NGO “Mediterranea saving humans” asked that the Italian Government intervene immediately to stop the violent, dangerous and criminal behaviour of the so-called Libyan Coastguard.
CELEBRITY APEX
The 'Celebrity Apex' rescued a group of seven people between Cuba and Mexico frin a small vessel adrift and in need of assistance on April 1, 2024. The ship’s crew immediately launched a rescue operation, safely bringing the people onboard. The crew provided them with medical attention, and was working closely with the U.S. Coast Guard. The ship had departed from Fort Lauderdale for a week-long cruise with stops in Key West, Belize, Cozumel, Mexico and Grand Cayman on March 30.
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GUARDAMAR CALIOPE
On April 6 at 9.25 a.m. the 'Salvamar Izar' rescued 50 people from a cayuko 11 nautical miles off Fuerteventura. Hours before, the Civil Guard located a boat with 69 people on board 12 nauitcal miles from Arguineguín. The 'Guardamar Calíope' rescued the migrants. The operations were coordinated by the RCC Las Palmas of Salvamento Marítimo. Photos: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1776549411868348906
MOBY ORLI
The 'Moby Orli' made it possible to tranship the 69 Bolivian passengers, among them 14 minors, who could not disembark in Barcelona from the 'MSC Armonia' and will be transported to a non-EU port by the Spanish authorities. The 'Moby Orli' has left the regular Livorno – Bastia route and reached Barcelona on April 4, 2024. The ferry will transport the Bolivian passengers back to a non-EU port. Without this prompt assistance from the 'Moby Orli', the 'MSC Armonia' would have remained stuck on the dock in Barcelona for another few days before being able to sail again. Once this mission has been completed, the ferry will return to its regular service for Moby between Tuscany and Corsica, where in the meantime it has been replaced by the 'Moby Kiss'. Before arriving in Barcelona, the authorities at the port of Tenerife had allowed the Bolivian citizens to disembark on Spanish territory, and only when the ship arrived on the Iberian peninsula did they encounter problems with their documentation.
MV SIVERKO
In the morning of April 5, 2024, a fire broke out on the 'Siverko' in the port of Arkhangelsk. Emergency services were summoned to the ship, which was being repaired in a floating dock. When the firefighters arrived, there was heavy smoke in the ship’s engine compartment, but no open fire was observed. It turned out that the oil was burning inside. Six fire trucks and 24 people combatted the fire. At 11.37 a.m. the fire was localized at an area of three square meters and was extinguished at 11.58 a.m. There were no injuries.
TT SPIRIT
The Oropouche West MP Dave Tancoo alleged that crew members of the 'TT Spirit' have been abandoned at sea with no means of relief, since the ship was drydocked aboard the heavy load carrier 'White Merlin' (IMO: 9670224) on the Port of Spain Anchorage for a prolonged period. Tancoo claimed that the technical crew of the ferry have been marooned at sea, on board their vessel which was hitched to the repair vessel 'White Marlin'. The Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago chairman Lyle Alexander said that the 'TT Spirit' was not being held for ransom. The repairs to the vessel have been completed while it was on drydock and it would be relaunched on April 4 to complete other minor repairs so it could return to the water after it underwent engine repairs with the shaft and parts on the jets of the engine being replaced. The emaining repairs were to be continued while the vessel is in the water, alongside the GSS Jetty in Port-of-Spain. All payments for the operations on the 'White Marlin' have been made to the ship’s agent.
SINGAPORE BULKER
One fisherman died and another went missing after the Indian f/v 'Periya Nayagi' with 10 crew members on board had suffered a leak and started sinking 95 nautical miles off Chennai, approximately 60 nautical miles east of Krishnapatnam, late on April 3, 2024. Eight other fishermen were brought to safety by the Indian Coast Guard on April 4. The MRCC Chennai had received a distress call, relayed by the National Data Centre, Mumbai, and launched an SAR operation with the participation of Coast Guard ships and three merchant vessels passing through the area. The fishermen had reported flooding onboard and were bailing out water to prevent the 'Periya Nayagi' from sinking. The MRCC requested a nearby merchant vessel to take the boat crew on board, but they were reluctant to board the merchant vessel for fear of losing their ship. The Indian Coast Guard later facilitated a conference call through satellite phone between the crew and the owner of the 'Periya Nayagi' to encourage the crew to board the merchant vessel, but the crew decided to stay with their ship, which commenced its voyage to Krishnapatnam on April 3 at 9.30 p.m. Since the 'Periya Nayagi' was out of mobile coverage area and only had a VHF radio, which had a limited range, no communication could be established. Around 11.55 p.m., the MRCC received a distress call again 50 nautical miles east of Krishnapatnam. The 'Singapore Bulker', that was passing nearby, diverted and rescued nine castaways. But one of the fishermen who was in a critical condition died. The Indian Coast Guard Ship 'C-440' was deployed from Chennai. and the eight fishermen were taken on board. The body of the dead fisherman was handed over to the fisheries officials in Chennai on April 4. The eight survivors were healthy. A search is one for the missing fisherman.
CS SOVEREIGN
The 'Léon Thévenin' has arrived at the site of one of four major undersea fibre cable breaks. A second ship, Global Marine’s 'C.S. Sovereign', was en route too after after a suspected submarine landslide that knocked out four undersea cables on March 14, 2024, causing severe Internet disruptions in South Africa and all along Africa’s Western coast near Abidjan, breaking the West Africa Cable System (WACS), Africa Coast to Europe (ACE), MainOne, and SAT-3. Due to the location and depth of the breaks, the cable owners have ruled out sabotage, stray boat anchors, and other human activity as possible causes for the outages. This left a submarine landslide as the most likely explanation. The cable breaks caused a roughly two-hour outage on Vodacom’s data network in South Africa. It also took down Microsoft’s locally hosted cloud services, preventing people from accessing their email, Teams meetings, and other Microsoft 365 services. The Microsoft Azure region in South Africa was also offline for several hours, leaving companies like payments provider Yoco unable to function. Services were restored after the impacted companies secured additional capacity on undersea cables that were still operational, like Google’s Equiano. Vodacom and Microsoft have not yet explained why a lack of international bandwidth also disrupted their local connectivity. Network infrastructure company WIOCC, an investor in WACS, has provided an update on the repairs to the four broken submarine cables. The 'Léon Thévenin'Ä set sail on March 19 from Cape Town. However, it will only attend to the SAT-3 break and reached the fault area on March 29. WACS is the more important cable for most South African network service providers, as the Telkom-controlled SAT-3 offers much less capacity. Regardless, it was expected that repairs to SAT-3 will be completed by the second week of April, barring any unforeseen circumstances. The 'C.S. Sovereign' will work on MainOne, WACS, and ACE with an ETA as of April 8. She had sailed from London on March 21, stopped in Brest on March 22 and sailed again on March 24. It paused again at Santa Cruz de Tenerife on March 3ß before leaving on April 1. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the expected restoration dates for the remaining cables are as follows: - ACE by April 17; WACS by April 28 and MainOne by May 9- While a submarine landslide was the suspected cause of the breaks, WIOCC said that no formal diagnosis of the cause has been possible.
QUEEN MARY 2
On APril 4, 2024, at 6 a.m. a fire broke out on the 'Queen Mary 2', en route from Colombo to Port Louis on the Indian Ocean. Passengers were confined to their cabins, but could still smell smoke. The crew dealt with the blaze quickly. The ship berthed in Port Louis on April 5 at 4 a.m. UTC and sailed again at 4.30 p.m., headed to Durban with an ETA as of April 9.
SALVAMAR IZAR
On April 6, 2024, at 9.25 a.m. the 'Salvamar Izar' rescued 50 people from a cayuko 11 nautical miles off Fuerteventura. Hours before, the Civil Guard located a boat with 69 people on board 12 nauitcal miles from Arguineguín. The 'Guardamar Calíope' rescued the migrants. The operations were coordinated by the RCC Las Palmas of Salvamento Marítimo. Photos: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1776549411868348906
ORIENTAL PEARL VI
The "Oriental Pearl VI", which had been sailing between Vladivostok and the port of Sokcho until Feb 7, 2024, commenced repairs in Yeosu on Feb 16, and was supposed to resume sailing on March 11. But the ship was delayed at the dock and did not resume the service, which started at the end of November 2023 by the South Korean shipping company JS Shipping, which faced management problems and owed the ferry crew two months' salary. The vessel operator had planned to attract new investors and inject operating funds into the project by the end of March, but this did not happen. Since April, the prospects for service on the route have become uncertain. The website of the Passenger Portal, which is responsible for selling tickets for the 'Oriental Pearl VI', states that the resumption of sailings is planned for April 22.
ARTEMIS
On April 3, 2024, the Romanian Agency for Saving Life at Sea (ARSVOM) was alerted by the MRCC regarding an overturned boat in the area of Tuzla, about 35 kilometers from the shore. The 'Artemis' was tasked to carry out SAR operations. At 5:45 p.m. the 'Artemis' arrived at the indicated position and began searching the sector as instructed by the MRCC. As a result of the searches, no person was found. The vessel was towed by the'Artemi' to the Port of Constanța on April 4. Following investigations, the Romanian Information Service (SRI) antiterrorism troops allegedly found explosive devices on board. Additionally, the vessel is equipped with radars and data transmission systems. There was a hypothesis that the rapid intervention boat belonged to the Ukrainian navy. Specialists were conducting investigations to determine the origin of the vessel and the causes that led to its overturning. Report with photos: https://spotmedia.ro/en/news/news/an-overturned-boat-in-the-black-sea-is-believed-to-have-explosive-devices-on-board
LIBERTY OF THE SEAS
The U.S. Coast Guard was searching for the 20-year-old Levion Parker, who went overboard from the 'Liberty of the Seas' on the morning of April 4, 2024, 57 miles off Great Inagua. The ship's crew immediately launched an SAR effort alongside the U.S. Coast Guard, who has taken over the search. The Coast Guard Cutter 'Seneca' and crews from the Coast Guard Air Station Miami were leading the search. A Care Team was providing support and assistance to the guest's family. The ship, en route from Puerto Plata, was due to arrive in Fort Lauderdale on April 5.