A sick Marion sailor was brought into Bermuda on Sunday after being picked up at sea by the Norwegian Dawn.

The crewman, who was suffering from nose bleeds, was evacuated on to the cruise liner on Saturday evening as the Dawn headed towards Bermuda and arrived at Dockyard yesterday.

The sailor was transferred into a waiting ambulance and taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

The rescue was orchestrated by Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre which had a busy weekend dealing with several incidents on the water.

At just before 10am on Sunday Bermuda Radio received a report that a 14-foot catamaran sailing dinghy had disappeared from a local watersports company at Mangrove Bay.

After working with police to launch a search for the vessel, the catamaran was spotted drifting at sea by a member of the public and returned to the rental firm.

Later in the day at 1.50pm Bermuda Radio helped organise for the fisheries patrol vessel, Sentinel, to come to the rescue of three people whose 24-foot boat broke down off Coney Island.