IN BRIEF - Eleven South African fishermen presumed dead after Sea Harvest trawler sinks
(SOUTH AFRICA, 5/20/2024)
The trawler “Lepanto” belonging to the Sea Harvest group sank on Friday May 17, off the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Among the twenty fishermen on board, nine were rescued and eleven were declared presumed dead.
Friday May 17, at 3:30 p.m. local time, a distress signal was sent by the trawler Lepanto, which left a little earlier from the port of Cape Town in South Africa. The thirty-five meter vessel sank approximately 34 nautical miles off the coast of the Slangkop lighthouse with 20 sailors on board. The alert immediately led to an intervention by emergency services as well as the reaction of numerous fishing boats, including the Armana , which managed to rescue nine sailors who had taken refuge on a life raft. The search also continued by air, w...
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