Personal flotation device

Border police are searching for a 48-year-old man who went missing at sea near Kavarna, BNR reported. The search team includes a military helicopter and civil aviation, and border police with canoes are also at sea, looking around the coastline.

Since the beginning of the season, the inspections of the tourist boats in Varna and the region have begun, said Captain Valentin Enchev, director of the Maritime Administration. He inspected the boats in the resort of Kamchia.

3000 people are searching the crash site for the passengers’ bodies. According to TASS news agency the black box was found on Tuesday morning under the cabin and it will br retrieved as soon as possible. According to experts there are two more recorders on the tail section to be found.

A group of U.S. scientists from the Texas A&M University have donated an EM.I.L.Y (Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard) robotic device to the Lesvos coast guard headquarters and the Greek Red Cross to assist their rescue work with refugees and migrants, according to an announcement on Friday.

Teams from Turkey's Labor and Social Security Ministry destroyed some 2,500 substandard life vests in simultaneous operations carried out at 121 firms which sold personal protective equipment in eight provinces on Jan. 22.

Police in ?zmir have collected substandard life vests from Syrian migrants, who buy them prior to their attempts to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece. 

Police carried out a life vest-collection operation in ?zmir's Basmane neighborhood, which is a common staging point for Syrian migrants as they await a chance to escape to Europe.

Refugees in the western coastal town of ?zmir attempt to cross the Aegean wearing poor-quality locally produced life vests, further endangering their lives.