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The 'Nuevo Xirín' suffered a rudder failure and was idisabled and adrift on Aug 7, 2025. The SAR boat 'Salvamar Sargadelos' (MMSI: 224073530) was mobilized from Ribeira (Santa Uxia) by the CCS Vigo of Salvamento Marítimo. It took the vessel in tow and safely pulled it to the port of Portonovo.

Divers sent down to evaluate the state of the hul of the ' Panagia Paravouniotissa'm have found localized damages on a length between 10-15 metres,meaning that it was not a large continuous crack, but damages on this total area. Some repair work will have to be done before refloating the ferry. The ship has a double hull, that prevented it from sinking. The crew members have remained on board in order to participate in the salvage efforts. A specific detachment and towing plan is needed to continue the salvage operation. Besides the two tugs, an anti-pollution vessel and a Coast Guard vessel were at the scene on Aug 7. Many of the passengers were staying in hotels in the area, waiting for the ship to be refloated, so that they can get cars and personal belongings and continue their journey and vacation. Many of the passengers have complained from the very beginning that there was no official information about the incident and that they themselves found life jackets under the seats, without any guidance from the crew. Reports with photos and video: https://popaganda.gr/newstrack/greece-newstrack/paramenei-kollimeno-stin-xera-to-ploio-panagia-paravoyniotissa/ https://www.naftemporiki.gr/maritime/1991172/nea-styra-tis-epomenes-ores-to-schedio-apomakrynsis-toy-ploioy-apo-tin-xera/ https://www.ethnos.gr/greece/article/376270/entostonepomenonoronhmetaforatoyferimpotpoyepesesexeraginetaiapokatastashtonzhmion

On July 14 the operation to refloat the 'Sea Lady II' in Saint-Tropez has started. Following the oil spill cleanup near the fire site. employees from the YDGS shipping company worked all day to raise the wreck. On the morning, several dozen lifting balloons were installed by divers around the vessel, and the water was being pumped out of the ship, which had a weight of 400 tons. The efforts were called off without success. Report with photo: https://www.varmatin.com/faits-divers/l-operation-de-renflouage-du-sea-lady-ii-a-commence-994260 https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/yacht-fire-sea-lady-ii-saint-tropez

The skipper of the water taxi 'Stormloper' cannot remember the collision with the Tiger. He suffers from a form of amnesia. This became clear on Aug 5 at the start of the criminal case into the accident on the Wadden Sea on Oct 21, 2022, which claimed the lives of four people on board. He told the court in Leeuwarden that he only remembers leaving Harlingen and contacting the speedboat via the radio near Terschelling. The next moment he was hanging from the bow of the boat, said the 35-year-old Kornelis P. from Harlingen. He was injured. The speedboat was sailing at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour just before the accident, the water taxi almost 30 kilometers per hour. In the Schuitengat, the shipping channel near Terschelling where the accident occurred, a speed limit of 20 kilometers per hour applies. An audio recording of the radio conversation prior to the collision was played in court. The captain of the 'Tiger' warned the oncoming 'Stormloper' that it would be better to pass the speedboat on the unusual starboard side. "I picked up the radio to find out what his intentions were. He was already on the red side before me," said Z. During the radio conversation, the men couldn't reach an agreement because the water taxi skipper was unresponsive. According to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), the skipper made an "incomprehensible and unsafe steering movement" at the last moment, leaving the ferry captain no choice but to run over the water taxi. In court, the relatives called on the skipper and captain to acknowledge their mistakes. "How difficult can it be to take responsibility for your mistakes," said the woman who lost both her 46-year-old husband and her 12-year-old son in the collision. "In the police report, you state that you believe you demonstrated good seamanship, but you don't know that you're not allowed to sail faster than 20 kilometers per hour in the Schuitengat. Does not knowing the rules qualify as good seamanship?" she asked the suspects, who are on trial for manslaughter. The woman from Sexbierum, Friesland, expects her missing son will never return. The wife and son of the 49-year-old victim from Tjalleberd also exercised their right to speak. He was found 16 days later on the Groene Strand beach on Terschelling. The woman called the collision a disaster resulting from a series of mistakes: "Your actions and reflection show that you are incompetent, incapable, and incompetent as skipper and captain. In my view, you are guilty of the deaths of three men and a child. You are not fit to perform this skill and good seamanship. I would never entrust human lives to these individuals again." The Public Prosecution Service demanded 180 hours of community service for both suspects. The prosecutor also requested three-month suspended prison sentences. Because they were sailing too fast, they are both accused of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm. "If both suspects had followed the rules, this accident would not have happened," the prosecutors said regarding the behaviour of skipper Kees P. and Arco Z. "Both could have prevented the collision." They sailed "carelessly and negligently." The lawyer for the captain of the speedboat argued for his client's acquittal. According to the defense, the speed limit in the Schuitengat is not posted anywhere, and the captain could not have been aware of it. Moreover, he tried to contact the skipper of the approaching water taxi in time via the radio.

On Aug 6 at 1.30 p.m. the salvage operation commenced in order to try to refloat the 'Panagia Paravouniotissa', which had run aground on a reef n the Euboean Gulf, near the coast of Evia island. The tug 'Vernicos Scafi II (IMO: 9314349) tried tp pull the vessel off, and divers were conducting underwater inspections and supported the operation. On aug 7 the tug was joined by the 'Protug 18' (IMO: 8410213), which had left Ampelaika on Aug 6. Attempts wree being made to move the vehicles inside the ship, so that the bow could be raised from the rocks. Technicians have boarded the ferry to assess the extent of the damage. An investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the incident. The captain of the ship that ran aground off the coast of Nea Styra appeared before the Chalkida prosecutor.to give his statement regarding the incident. During his testimony, he said he did not see the reef and that the ship’s rudders jammed. The captain remains in custody by order of the investigating judge at the Chalkida Port Authority, facing charges of causing a shipwreck through negligence. He has been granted a deadline to give a formal statement on Aug 8. Passengers noted a general lack of direction from the captain and its crew, saying that they helped themselves to life jackets and self-organized while waiting to be rescued. Reportsswith photos and video: https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1277370/operation-underway-to-dislodge-ferry-grounded-off-evia-coast/ https://www.thenationalherald.com/captain-of-greek-ferry-that-ran-aground-faces-port-authority/ https://www.avgi.gr/politiki/509846_tessera-eyloga-erotimata-gia-tin-prosaraxi-toy-feri-mpot-poy-zitoyn-peistikes?amp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnTQAZRdh80&t=2s https://www.cnn.gr/ellada/story/489930/ypo-kratisi-o-kapetanios-tou-feri-bot-pou-prosarakse-se-ksera-sta-nea-styra https://www.athensvoice.gr/epikairotita/ellada/917782/upo-kratisi-o-kapetanios-tou-feri-bot-pou-prosaraxe-se-xera-sta-nea-stura/ https://toedolio5.gr/2025/08/06/archise-i-epicheirisi-rymoulkisis-tou-feri-bot-pou-prosaraxe-ston-evvoiko-vinteo/ https://www.npress.gr/greece/ypo-kratisi-o-ploiarchos-tou-feri-bot-pou-prosaraxe-sta-nea-styra/ https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1669980/nea-styra-kollisan-ta-pidalia-den-eida-tin-ksera-ti-eipe-stin-apologia-o-ploiarxos https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/08/07/nea-styra-ferry-grounding-crew-panic/