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This week, a Norwegian reefer ship narrowly avoided disaster after grounding on a remote shore in the Hebrides.<\/p>\n
At about 0200 hours on Monday morning, the Norwegian-flagged reefer Rotsund<\/em> dragged anchor and grounded on a rocky shoreline near the village of Breakish on the Isle of Skye. HM Coastguard received a distress call from the ship and called two local RNLI lifeboat stations in the port towns of Kyle and Portree. <\/p>\n The Kyle RNLI volunteer rescue team got under way at about 0225 and were on scene by 0240. They found that the Rotsund's<\/em> stern was aground on the rocks, and that the wind and the seas were setting the vessel towards shore. There was a risk that the ship could have been pushed broadside onto the rocks, Kyle RNLI helmsman Daniel Elliot said. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Courtesy Kyle RNLI<\/em><\/p>\n There were no signs of pollution in the water, and no injuries were reported, so the lifeboat stood by while the Rotsund<\/em> made efforts to free herself from the rocks. Portree's lifeboat arrived at about 0340 and joined the standby operation. <\/p>\n At about 0415, Rotsund's<\/em> crew managed to free the ship using their own thrusters and engines. The RNLI stood by until a tug arrived on scene to assist Rotsund<\/em>, then headed back into port. <\/p>\n "It was important that we stayed on scene to ensure that there was no unseen damage underneath the waterline which could pose a risk to the crew, or any pollution coming from the vessel which could pose a danger to the environment," said Elliot.<\/p>\n Rotsund <\/em>is a 2,700 dwt reefer operated by Norlines, a coastwise shipping company specializing in local logistics within Norway. maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, a Norwegian reefer ship narrowly avoided disaster after grounding on a remote shore in the Hebrides. At about 0200 hours on Monday morning, the Norwegian-flagged reefer Rotsund dragged anchor and grounded on a rocky shoreline near the village of Breakish on the Isle of Skye. HM Coastguard received a distress call from …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2157,25624,1650,1747,25623],"class_list":["post-57343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aground","tag-hebrides","tag-norwegian","tag-reefer","tag-rotsund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343","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=57343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/57344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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