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Shetland Coastguard officers abseiled down a 90-foot cliff bank in Unst – to rescue a sheepdog that had plunged over the edge. (more…) Read more...
A woman has been pulled from Lerwick Harbour in the early hours of this morning. Shetland Coastguard said it received a report from police at about 1.45am. The Lerwick lifeboat and Lerwick coastguard rescue team were tasked though the coastguard said police were already on the scene and were ... Read more...
Shetland coastguard was called to airlift at an injured crewman from a North Sea platform. The helicopter was called at about 2pm to the Ocean Guardian, about 60 miles north-east of Shetland. The helicopter arrived at Tingwall at 4.10pm where it was met by an ambulance. Read more...
Shetland Coastguard has been called to airlift an injured crewman from a north-east oil platform. Aberdeen Coastguard received the call from the Brent Delta platform 115 miles north-east of Lerwick, at about 7.40am. However the Shetland helicopter was tasked to take the man to safety. It la... Read more...
An inflatable boat was towed into Lerwick this morning following concerns about a possible fire on board. Ayda-Ruby, issued a pan-pan alert at the harbour's south entrance at about 10.30am. The 8.4-metre rigid inflatable vessel was carrying three people and Shetland coastguard called the Lerwi... Read more...
Shetland Coastguard is co-ordinating a rescue of round-the-world lone yachtsman Julian Mustoe, who has sailed into trouble in the Dunbar field 100 nautical miles north-east of Lerwick. (more…) Read more...
Staff at the coastguard centre in Lerwick can help their colleagues elsewhere in the UK from today, and receive help, too, when the going gets tough. (more…) Read more...
Three people were towed to safety after the engine on their leisure boat caught fire off West Burra. The Shetland Coastguard helicopter, Lerwick and West Burra coastguard rescue teams, and the Aith lifeboat were called into action at about 12.30pm this afternoon after a call stating the engine of... Read more...
The Aith lifeboat crew came to the assistance of the pleasure craft The Otter yesterday after she broke down and was drifting out to sea. The small boat, with one person on board, experienced a dead battery while off the isle of Vementry on the West Side of Shetland. While the seas were calm... Read more...
Shetland Coastguard and other search and rescue teams have suspended their efforts in the hunt for survivors from the cement carrier Cemfjord which capsized and sank in the Pentland Firth – with no sign of the eight missing crewmen. (more…) Read more...