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Nervous moments as vessel hits reef returning from Anegada
SETTING POINT, Anegada, VI- A few persons making their way to Tortola via a powerboat after attending the Lobster Festival on Anegada on Sunday, December 1, 2019 were in for a frightening experience when the vessel they were in hit a reef.
Concerned persons rescue child left in locked car
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- When a passerby noticed a child alone in a locked car in the heart of Road Town shortly before noon yesterday October 23, 2019, they did not leave to chance that the parent or guardian would have returned in short order.
VISAR rescues two from rough sea waters
FORT RECOVERY, West End, Tortola - Two persons were this afternoon, December 28, 2018, rescued from the rough sea in the area of Fort Recovery on the Western End of Tortola, Virgin Islands (VI).
Four pulled from water after yacht sinks
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Four persons were rescued by a passing vessel after their yacht sank in Virgin Islands waters this morning, July 21, 2017.
UPDATE: Search continues for Deshaun M. Bryan aka 'Bongo'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The search is continuing for Deshaun M. Bryon aka ‘Bongo’, the person identified as missing following a boating mishap in Sir Francis Drake Channel, between Road Harbour on Tortola and Peter Island last evening, July 11, 2017.
‘Supa Cop’ rescues woman from mentally ill attacker
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Police Officer Glenn ‘Supa Cop’ Callwood was in the right place at the right time over the weekend, possibly saving a woman from severe injury or death at the hands of a man believed to be of unsound mind.
More than 500 evacuated in ship fire near Puerto Rico
VI CONSORTIUM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- The US Coast Guard responded on Wednesday August 17, 2016 to a fire aboard the 561-foot passenger ferry vessel Caribbean Fantasy approximately half a mile off of Punta Salinas, the Coast Guard has made known via press release.
UPDATE: Police confirm death of tourist @ The Indians
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Information and Press Officer of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Diane Drayton has confirmed that a man died suddenly yesterday March 1, 2016 at The Indians, the uninhabited small archipelago of islets located west of the main island of Tortola in the [British] Virgin Islands.
Woman injured by catamaran propeller @ Peter Island
PETER ISLAND, Tortola, VI - Coordinator of the Virgin Islands Search and Rescue (VISAR) John P. Aspinal has confirmed that a woman was cut by a propeller of a catamaran off Peter Island today February 18, 2016.
UPDATE: ‘My parents weren’t trapped!’ - Reginald Hodge
WEST END, Tortola, VI – Being very upbeat that his parents are alive, well and unhurt having withstood the ordeal of losing their home to a mid-day fire yesterday July 2, 2014, son of Mr and Mrs Hodge, Reginald Hodge said that his parents were not trapped at the time the fire broke out.
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