Rescue

On Monday, two French climbers were rescued from a ravine where they were trapped, at some 1,950 meters on Mount Taygetus. Mount Taygetus is also known as Prophet Elias. The name of this mountain appears in the Odyssey and the...

The dramatic rescue of a Russian tourist holidaying in Greece's Crete was captured on camera by an aircraft belonging to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). The 55-year-old woman drifted out to the sea by the currents and...

A military helicopter landed on a thin stretch of land at an altitude of around 2,700 meters on Mount Olympus, to rescue an injured mountaineer. The brave pilot of the Super Puma had to maneuver the helicopter over a steep...

Greek rescuers succeeded in locating and freeing a Romanian mountaineer who was missing since Saturday evening on Mt. Olympus. The rescue operation took more than 12 hours, as the mountaineer was trapped in a steep slope in an area called...

A Polish tourist was saved from the cliffs of Assos on the Greek island of Kefalonia in a dramatic rescue effort after losing his orientation while hiking a trail. The tourist was stranded in an area of the cliffs where...

Two migrants missing at sea since Thursday morning some six miles north of the Aegean island of Samos were rescued by a Super Puma helicopter in the evening. One of the migrants was well in his health but the other was...

New evidence comes to light in the tragic incident last Monday involving a boat transporting illegal immigrants in the eastern Aegean Sea and the Greek coast guard, which led to the death of 12 immigrants. The statements given by...

A rescue operation is underway by the Greek Coast guard, after a fishing vessel containing illegal immigrants capsized, 1.5 nautical miles from the island of Farmakonisi, Greece, in the Eastern Aegean.The Coast Guard ship had detected the drifting vessel...

Approximately 80 days ago, a Swedish man was sailing on his boat in the Indian Ocean without an engine or a sail. A storm had broken his mast and the man was left alone on his boat, without being able...

A rescue attempt was completed earlier today at about 90 nautical miles southwest of the island of Zakynthos. 65 Afghan and Kurd illegal immigrants were boarded on a small boat that was most probably trying to reach Italy, when for...