AFRAS Awards
Annual Maritime SAR Awards: Chairman’s Award Winner
Three U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarists, working with on-scene civilians with medical experience, medevaced a man with severe injuries at Quilomene Creek – part of Washington state's Columbia River – Sep. 3, 2017. Auxiliarists Kathleen Goodwin (boat coxswain) and Steven...
Annual Maritime SAR Awards: Amver Award Winner
The Amver participating container ship Joanna saved 105 migrants off the coast of Libya Feb. 18, 2017. The crew of the Joanna was sailing west of Crete, on a voyage to Italy, when the ship was notified by rescue authorities in Malta of a possible migrant or fishing...
Annual Maritime SAR Awards: Cruise Ship Humanitarian Assistance Award Winner
The captain and crew of Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Elation saved the life of a fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico, during Hurricane Irma, battling high winds and rough seas to do so, Sep. 10, 2017, and are the honorees for this year's AFRAS Cruise Ship Humanitarian...
Annual Maritime SAR Awards: Amver Special Award Winner
The Amver participating auto carrier Hercules Leader rescued six people from a disabled catamaran 275 miles southwest of Bermuda Jan. 19, 2017, and its captain and crew has been selected to receive this year's AFRAS maritime search and rescue Amver Special Award. The...
Annual Maritime SAR Awards: C-Port Award Winner
Capt. Nathan Lins, of TowBoatUS Catalina, in California, was selected as the recipient of this year's AFRAS C-Port search and rescue award, for saving the life of a man who went overboard. Lins was towing a disabled boat when he heard the mayday call for help come...