Swedish child survives washing machine rescue
A boy from Sweden has lived to tell the story of a dramatic washing machine incident. The adventurous seven year-old was trapped in the appliance for ...
Icelandic trawler sinks off Norway, three sailors missing
An Icelandic fishing trawler has sunk in bad weather off the coast of Norway. At the time of writing only one of the four crew members had been locate...
70th anniversary of British soldiers’ rescue in Iceland
This weekend marked 70 years since residents of the Veturhús farm near Eskifjörður, east Iceland, saved the lives of over 40 British soldiers.
Four missing in snow and wind in east Iceland – found safe
Search & rescue teams in East Iceland have been searching for four people lost in bad weather on Fljótsdalsheiði. Nobody had heard from the group ...
Swedish tourist lost on Icelandic glacier found dead
The search for a Swedish tourist lost on an Icelandic glacier had a sad end this weekend when his body was found in a crevasse in the ice.
Icelandic rescuers searching for lost Swede
The search for a 25 year-old Swedish man, who set off along the Fimmvorduhals mountain hiking route alone yesterday, has so far borne no results. The ...
Icelandic emergency man is female and sells well
The Icelandic search & rescue organisation ICE-SAR (known domestically as Landsbjorg) sold over 60,000 plastic figures in its annual Neydarkall ap...
Dramatic rescue in Icelandic waters
The Icelandic Coastguard yesterday faced a stiff challenge when a large cargo ship lost its rudder off the country’s southeast coast and narrowl...