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On Saturday morning, a German-owned car carrier rescued three sailors from a yacht in distress off Bermuda. <\/p>\n
Watchstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard's 5th District Command Center received a call from the Bermuda Rescue Coordination Center, which reported that an EPIRB had been activated aboard the sailing vessel Esmeralda<\/em>. <\/p>\n The captain of the yacht told the Bermuda Rescue Coordination Center that he had activated his EPIRB after growing concerned about staying aboard in rough weather and high seas.<\/p>\n USCG watchstanders dispatched a Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City C-130J Hercules aircrew to the scene and activated the AMVER system to request assistance from merchant vessels in the area.<\/p>\n The vehicle carrier vessel Paganella <\/em>answered the call and diverted to the disabled sailing vessel. Her crew safely recovered and transferred the three mariners onboard, and she is now en route to New York.<\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday morning, a German-owned car carrier rescued three sailors from a yacht in distress off Bermuda. Watchstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard's 5th District Command Center received a call from the Bermuda Rescue Coordination Center, which reported that an EPIRB had been activated aboard the sailing vessel Esmeralda. The captain of the yacht told the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[765,3310,1864,1334,13390,1535,2693,13391,2175],"class_list":["post-21464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bermuda","tag-car","tag-carrier","tag-mariners","tag-paganella","tag-rescue","tag-rescues","tag-sailing-vessel","tag-sailors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/21465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}