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Tourmalet grounding...and final liberation!
« on: January 17, 2006, 01:25:26 AM »
Important rescue facilities were deployed in the night of Wednesday to Thursday next to Ouessant(Brittany - France) to recover a part of the crew of a trawler, Tourmalet, which ran aground on a rock some 200m off the coast.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the the trawler's skipper which was navigating towards his fishing zone would have admitted having nodded off while he ensured the watch on the footbridge.

Tourmalet, a beautiful vessel of 34 meters registered in Concarneau, managed however to take again the sea with the rising tide after having been failed in the passage of Fromveur, considered very perilous for navigation. It was transported to her home port after being taken in trailer by another trawler present on zone.

Five sailors, who had succeeded in taking seat in a raft of survival, could be rescued by the boat of the national Company of rescue at sea (SNSM: Soci
Fishermen's friend. :-)

 

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