Hellenic Coast Guard

Unfortunately, there is no end to the refugee tragedies unfolding in the Aegean Sea. Early in the morning on Sunday, November 1, a boat carrying around 50 people, crashed against rocks on the coast of the Greek island of...

A new maritime tragedy in Greek waters culminated in two separate wrecks leaving 22 people dead and 144 rescued between the islands of Rhodes, Kalymnos and Kalolimnos. on Friday, the Hellenic Coast Guard and volunteer rescuers pulled 19 dead bodies out...

A new deadly shipwreck in Greek waters left four more refugees dead and allegedly 38 more missing on Wednesday as winds in the Aegean Sea reached 8 points on the Beaufort scale. A wooden boat carrying about 300 refugees --...

A boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized in the East Aegean Sea, North of the Greek island of Samos, on Wednesday. Turkish authorities rescued 16 people who were aboard the ship, according to Greek media reports. Greek authorities were informed that another 15 people...

A total of 2,561 refugees were located and rescued by the Coast Guard and Frontex as well as a private sailing boat in 69 incidents in the sea regions of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Agathonissi, Farmakonissi, Kalolimnos, Kos and Megisti...

Four more children have been added to the death toll of refugees who are losing their lives tragically on an ongoing struggle to cross the waters from Turkey to the nearby Greek islands. A rubber boat carrying 17 people including...

A Hellenic Coast Guard boat that was on its way to conduct a rescue operation in the East Aegean seas was hit by a boat that was carrying migrants and refugees off the shore of the Greek island of Lesvos...

The refugee crisis that has engulfed three continents, continues with migrants and refugees steadily trying to reach the Greek islands from Turkey. On Wednesday, a capsized boat off the Greek island of Lesvos left three people missing. The Hellenic Coast Guard rescued the remaining...

Two refugees, a young child and a woman lost their lives when the boat carrying them from the Turkish coast to Greece capsized on Wednesday morning, September 30th, off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos. Hellenic coast guard...

The Hellenic Coast Guard announced that 26 refugees of unknown nationality are still missing after their boat sank off the island of Lesvos. So far the rescue operations have pulled 20 people out of the water. "They told rescuers there...