Fishing Vessel Accident: Canadian Rescue Services Recover 10 Bodies From Sunk Spanish Trawler - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 16, 2022
Three surviving sailors from the trawler, suffering from severe
hypothermia, were plucked from a life raft early on Tuesday. It was not
immediately clear what caused the trawler, called the Villa de Pitanxo,
to sink.
Meanwhile, rescue operations were ongoing on Wednesday, involving a
plane, two helicopters, rescue ships and one Spanish and two Portuguese
trawlers, the Spanish marine rescue agency said.
The vessel, with a crew of 24 comprising 16 Spaniards, five Peruvians
and three Ghanaians, launched a distress beacon at 0424 GMT.
The shipwreck was the most fatal involving a Spanish boat in years and
was a particular blow to Galicia, in northwestern Spain, whose sailors
have travelled the world’s seas to fish for centuries.