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Sea-Help is known as Europe's largest breakdown and recovery service for pleasure craft, providing assistance in non-life-threatening situations. Sometimes, however, SeaHelp members also receive a "special service" beyond this, as the operation at the SeaHelp base in Empuriabrava in the Spanish municipality of Castelló d'Empúries on the Gulf of Roses (province of Girona, Catalonia) shows. The SeaHelp base in Empuriabrava...
Read moreSeaHelp is known as Europe's largest breakdown and recovery service for pleasure craft, providing assistance in non-life-threatening situations. Sometimes, however, SeaHelp members also receive a "special service" beyond this, as the operation at the SeaHelp base in Empuriabrava in the Spanish municipality of Castelló d'Empúries on the Gulf of Roses (province of Girona, Catalonia) shows. The SeaHelp base in Empuriabrava...
Read moreThe Balearic Islands are - and will remain - one of the most popular vacation destinations for German-speaking Europeans, at least according to the latest report on the leisure boat market 2023 published by the National Association of Nautical Companies ANEN. This trend is confirmed by SeaHelp, which has a total of three bases in Mallorca. At the end of...
Read moreThe SeaHelp team led by head of operations René Haar had their hands full over the last few days. The reason was the Baltic Sea storm flood on the night of October 20/21, 2023, which the authorities currently classify as the most severe Baltic Sea storm flood since 1872. "A flood of the century", summarizes SeaHelp operations manager René Haar....
Read moreSeaHelp, Europe's largest breakdown service at sea, also maintains in the Netherlands in the Dutch water sports area with Ijssel and Markermeer very popular with Germans and Austrians several operation bases. A membership is worthwhile, as the following mission report on the rescue of a motor yacht on the Markermeer shows . It was on a normal weekday when the...
Read moreThe vacation and vacation season has begun, which also affects the deployment figures of SeaHelp: no day on which the "yellow angels on the water" currently do not have to move out. We accompanied a team on a mission from Punat on Krk, Croatia. No matter whether it is towing or starting assistance, fuel service, spare parts deliveries, free towing...
Read moreIt is considered the largest regatta in the world: the Barcolana off the Italian city of Trieste. Up to 1,800 boats and yachts take part in the sporting spectacle, up to 20,000 sailors are actively involved, and on land there is regularly a large sailing festival with up to a quarter of a million spectators. In 2020, the regatta had...
Read moreThe emergency call was received by SeaHelp headquarters on the morning of a sunny August day: the owner of an aging, ten-meter Princess motor yacht reported water ingress in his yacht and requested assistance. After telephone consultation, one of the yellow response teams set off at high speed to the site of the accident near Mali Ston on the north...
Read moreThe last two long weekends brought a lot of work to the SeaHelp emergency forces, an unmistakable sign that most of the water sports enthusiasts have long since returned to the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. Among the most significant and also highly visible operations was obviously the fire of a Bayliner 29 motor yacht off the coast of Krk. SeaHelp...
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