Sentence examples for coastguard with from inspiring English sources

Merchant ships have been making a "significant" contribution, according to the Coastguard, with one vessel, the Norman Corona, rescuing 95 migrants and transferring them to a patrol boat.

On Monday, Greece's coastguard, with a team of divers, was still searching the area off the remote island of Farmakonisi for potential bodies or survivors.

Greece sent its navy and coastguard with a military helicopter to the scene in response to an alarm call and Italian coast guard officials later boarded to check if the ship could navigate properly.

Mr Davutoglu said he and the German chancellor had agreed a series of joint measures to reduce that figure, including an emergency aid group to help refugees at the border and an initiative aimed at combining the work of the Turkish coastguard with the EU border agency Frontex.

This includes an increase in funding for the Libyan coastguard, with an overall aim to stop migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean to Italy.

This criminal enterprise was very different to the one that began as a kind of vigilante coastguard, with armed fishermen extorting cash from unlicensed fishing boats.

On Sunday several human traffickers threatened Italian coastguard officers with Kalashnikovs, in order to stop them seizing their boat, while the officers were in the process of rescuing nearly 2,000 migrants from 11 small vessels between Lampedusa and Libya on Sunday.

There were also reports of a coastguard armed with a handgun who arrived at the beach during the attack and one witness told the Guardian a "man in red shorts" tried to use that weapon to take down Rezgui.

The coastguard, along with the US and Mexican navies, deployed aircraft and ships to help the stricken vessel, which was drifting about 55 miles off the coast of northern Baja.

A number of witnesses said this group of about 30 men had gathered below Rezgui around the swimming pool, including a member of the coastguard armed with a handgun who had arrived in a small craft, and a second officer who was unarmed.

Newer radios have a button labeled "DSC" (Digital Select Calling), which transmits the GPS coordinates to the coastguard along with a Mayday beacon.