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About 30 minutes after entering the water, the woman realised she was drifting and was unable to return to the beach.

An investigation has begun and it is believed the pair were not wearing life jackets at the time.

A group of cave explorers in the US spotted something unusual as they moved down an underground funnel.

Emergency services arrived at the scene to find two people trapped in the basket of the balloon.

The president of a New Zealand fishing club says he's "broken" after the bodies of three missing fishermen were found on the shore of Māhia in Hawke's Bay.

A woman has been rescued after she fell overboard from a whale watching boat off the coast of Queensland.

A father and son were winched to safety.

"He's a deadset hero," one witness said of a brave neighbour.

The trio had been stuck for about six hours after their car had become bogged down.

Officers from the Australian Border Force (ABF) on patrol in the area commenced a search after receiving a distress signal from a vessel.

A daring rescue has played out in Queensland's Scenic Rim region to save an injured hiker who was stuck in freezing conditions on the side of a mountain.

A man walking the length of Australia to campaign for basic income has has spent the night in freezing temperatures after falling from a cliff.

The distressed whale was first reported to Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday when it was spotted near Fremantle.

"So far in 2024 our veterinary costs are just over $94,000"

Police in Florida say the three-year-old girl was rescued in the nick of time from the baking SUV.

A rescue operation for the people remaining trapped under the billboard is ongoing.

A specialist search and rescue team located the woman despite "challenging conditions and heavy rain."

Brazilians battling their country's ongoing flood disaster finally had some good news.

The "adventurous pup" had slid about five to eight metres below ground, rescuers said.

Three men clinging to the hull of a tinnie have been rescued from waters about 200km from mainland Australia overnight.

The men called Triple Zero, who then mobilised the Westpac rescue helicopter to retrieve the group from the rapidly sinking boat.

A 16-year-old boy who survived a 10-metre cliff plunge while hiking in Martin, south-east of Perth, has spoken from hospital.

A teenager has been winched to safety in Perth's south-east, the second cliff fall for emergency crews in as many days.

A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out "HELP" using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach.

She was freed by firefighters after a 30-minute ordeal before being treated in hospital.

Emergency crews are desperately working to rescue three people stranded in extreme weather off Victoria's remote east coast, after their boat struck trouble.

Emergency services performed hundreds of rescues across the state but sadly two people drowned.

The 36-year-old man slipped off the rocks into the water at Cape Arid near Esperance.

A major rescue mission was underway to free the pair.

It's understood the fishing boat was hit by a wave off Spilsby Island, about 50 kilometres from Port Lincoln, yesterday afternoon.

The search for a 6-year-old girl who was swept away in a rain-swollen southeastern Pennsylvania creek has become a recovery mission rather than a rescue mission, authorities say.

The ship was completely overturned by the time rescuers arrived at the scene

After over a week without food or water, Michelle Pittman's nine-year-old son went purple. She thought 'that was it'.

Four friends sparked a multi-agency rescue operation when they attempted to take a shortcut during a bushwalk.

Law enforcement officials say wildlife crews are working to free a sperm whale beached off Venice, Florida, but hope is fading.

The swimmer was found clinging to rocks near Carnac Island, south of Perth just after 10am this morning.

But an eagle-eyed nine-year-old spotted them and sounded the alarm.

The driver was attempting to traverse a river crossing while towing a U-Haul trailer.

The rescue comes as much of the state sweats through its hottest day of the summer.

The driver of the truck saw the woman through a camera that was located inside the truck.

Six people were forced out of their house when the living room floor in their home in Miami's Little Havana neighbourhood collapsed, authorities said.

Three people have died and a woman has been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after multiple people got into trouble in the water

The stranded yachties were thankful for the rescue, just not for how it unfolded.

An elderly man who almost drowned after falling from a Victorian pier has been reunited with his brave rescuers.

A major rescue has unfolded on Sydney's Northern Beaches, as the city basked in Sunday heat.

A man has been rescued after spending more than 24 hours trapped 25 metres down a mine shaft in an outback town.

Ironman and ironwoman athletes have helped with a mass rescue at a Sydney beach after more than 20 people got into trouble in the water.

A group of men have avoided a maritime disaster after they were rescued when their boat began to sink off the Queensland coast.

Four people have had to be rescued from Sydney's Bronte Beach at dusk after they became stuck in a strong rip.

Slovenia's rescuers on Monday successfully extracted five people who had been trapped in a cave for more than two days because of high water levels.