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Two dead, one seriously injured and one missing in the shipwreck of a fishing boat off the coast of Santander
The coordination center of Maritime Rescue of Santander received the notice of the shipwreck shortly before five in the morning. The F/V Vilaboa Uno had an emergency six miles off the Cantabrian coast. Immediately other fishing boats that were in the area and maritime rescue personnel have approached the place. They have only been able to rescue seven crew members alive, one of them seriously injured. Two of the sailors have been killed and a third remains missing. After receiving the warning, the alert was distributed among the boats in the area. Several fishing boats, a Maritime Rescue ship and a helicopter have been transferred there at dawn. The fishing vessel F/V Siempre Nécora, the first to arrive, managed to locate seven of the crew. The Phoenix gave with an eighth and a boat of the Pilots of the Port to the ninth Video, >click to read< 11:25
Two dead after fishing boat goes down off Vancouver Island near Tofino
Two people are dead and three others were treated and released from hospital Sunday after a fishing boat went down off the west coast of Vancouver Island near the remote tourist community of Tofino. All five people on board the vessel were taken to shore Sunday afternoon, but health officials later confirmed that two of them had died, Coast Guard spokesman Dan Bate said in a statement. The 8.5-metre-long catamaran was fishing for halibut near Bartlett Island, north of Tofino, B.C., on Sunday afternoon, he said. Someone on the boat made a distress call around 1:20 p.m., said Sub-Lt. Melissa Kia with the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria. Details are sketchy. click here to read the story 11:04
The RCMP says two Alberta men died when a sport-fishing vessel overturned and sank off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Sunday. The Mounties say the men are 32 and 42 years old, but their names and hometowns haven’t yet be released. click here to read the story 15:46
