All news on the topic: Rescue

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One dead and dozens rescued in latest attempt to cross Channel
French authorities say they received call for help from overcrowded dinghy in early hours of Sunday
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Thai cave rescue victims now - from professional football careers to tragedy
When all 12 Thai cave rescue victims, as well as their coach, emerged alive from the Tham Luang cave after being trapped for more than two weeks, many couldn't believe their eyes. Here we take a look at where the boys are now
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Caver suffers 'worst possible' death wedged upside down in 24cm gap for 28 hours
John Edward Jones was an experienced explorer when he embarked on an unmapped cave expedition in Utah in 2009, which tragically ended with his body sealed inside forever
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Hero neighbour jumps into freezing pond to save Labrador dog after ice gave way
A labrador named Luke was heroically saved this week by his owner's neighbor Russ Walker after the man descended into a freezing pond
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Rescue effort as tour party trapped by flood waters in cave in Slovenia
The tour party was reportedly made up of a three adults - who were said to be members of the same family - and two guides, who became stuck in the Krizna Jama cave on Saturday when water levels rose
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Man rescued from sea after 24 hours in water using watch to signal for help
A man who was nearly 24 hours in the water off the coast of New Zealand after falling from his boat, and was circled by sharks, used the reflection from his watch to signal for help
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Killer ultramarathon organisers jailed after 21 runners die
In May 2021, despite gale force winds, freezing rains and hale pounding the city of Baiyin in Gansu, China, organisers of an ultra-marathon event decided to let it go ahead anyway
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Daring rescuers save hiker trapped beneath five-ton boulder for seven hours
In a daring nighttime operation, Inyo County Search and Rescue successfully freed a hiker trapped for seven hours beneath a massive boulder in the Inyo Mountains
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Man saved from capsized homemade wooden boat by cruise ship
Tom Robinson, 24, from Brisbane, was bidding to cross the Pacific to Australia on a homemade wooden rowing boat when he got into difficulty and was rescued by a cruise ship
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Heroes rescue tourists trapped in killer bus crash after it plunged down gorge
Boubakar Toure, 27, from Gambia, and Godstime Erheneden, 30, heard the bus smash through a safety rail and plunge down a gorge in Venice and immediately raced to the scene to try rescue those trapped inside the burning vehicle
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Panicked women beg for help as they're left locked in lorry and can't breathe
Four Vietnamese and two Iraqi women spent more than 10 hours in the cramped, freezing truck, before a BBC reporter helped intercept and rescue their lorry
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Terrifying moment lifeguards pluck teen from raging sea as boyfriend swept away
Luana Araujo de Souza, 18, fell from a cliff in Brazil and was close to having her body battered by rocks when a team of lifeguards managed to drag her from the sea
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Rescuers use explosives to blow open narrow cave passages to save stuck American
It has taken days to bring Mark Dickey to the surface since rescuers anticipate he will have to stop and rest frequently at camps set up along the way in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains
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Man found clinging to plastic cooler lid in middle of ocean by passing navy ship
A distressed fisherman was found clinging to a cooler lid by US Army Mariners who rescued the man who had spent hours at sea after his boat had capsized miles from land
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Heroic officer rescues father and daughter after truck plunges into river
A police officer launched into action after witnessing a pickup truck plunge into a Pennsylvania river. He swam out and saved the young girl before guiding her father back to shore
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Huge rescue mission to save bleeding 'elite caver' stuck 3,600ft underground
American researcher Mark Dickey became trapped nearly 1,000 metres below the entrance of Morca cave in Turkey's Taurus Mountains after suffering stomach bleeding
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Incredible rescue of 4 off-duty cops stuck for hours on peak during raging storm
The off-duty officers were rescued from the peak of the Munro at 2am on Saturday after they got into difficulty while scaling the Cuillin Ridge on Skye.
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Bank holiday rescue operation launched after 20 people cut off by coastal tide
The coastal visitors found themselves cut off by rising tides in West Scar, Flamborough, and needed help from the coastguard rescue team to make it safely back to the beach
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Incredible Pakistan drone footage shows people trapped hanging in cable car
The cable car had been carrying six children and two adults, thought to be teachers, to their school in the remote mountainous region of Battagram, 120 miles north of Islamabad, when two of the cables snapped
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Pakistan cable car rescue success as kids and adults saved in zipline recovery
A huge emergency response, which included Pakistan's Armed Forces, rushed to a mountainous Pashto village this morning after six kids and two adults were left dangling in a cable car 900ft above ground
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Incredible moment 4 surfers found drifting in ocean after 36 hours at sea
Elliot Foote's dad Peter says he has received a message from his son to confirm he is safe and well and "alive" after he was among four Australians who went missing along with three Indonesians when their boat capsized off Indonesia's Aceh Province
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Royal Marine who rescued dogs from Kabul as Taliban seized power now in Ukraine
Pen Farthing, 54, and his "Operation Ark" managed to rescue 200 cats and dogs from the chaos of Kabul as the Taliban took control in August 2021 after the US and NATO forces withdrew
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Three fisherman pulled from perilous ocean in harrowing rescue
The coast Guard rescued three fishermen clinging to a buoy in the ocean off Cape Cod after they were alerted by an emergency radio beacon
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Dramatic moment girl is swept out to sea as horrified witnesses rush to save her
A girl was seen being swept out to sea at Ilfracombe Harbour in Devon after playing on the sea front before onlookers battle the waves at high tide to reach her
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Panicked backpacker trapped in cable car 10,000ft in the air feared he would die
Haris Minhaj, 29, spoke of his trauma after his worst nightmare came true when his cable car at Mount Fansipan in Sapa, Vietnam got stuck but kept spirits high by documenting his ordeal on TikTok