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On Friday morning, two good samaritan vessels worked together to rescue two British mariners from a disabled sailing yacht about 520 nm off the coast of Bermuda.<\/p>\n
Watchstanders at the Fifth U.S. Coast Guard District command center received a call from the Rescue Coordination Center United Kingdom early Wednesday morning. The UK authorities reported that a 39-foot sailboat had become disabled off Bermuda due to a broken steering box. Two sailors were on board. <\/p>\n
The Fifth District command center activated the AMVER system to alert vessels in the area and request assistance. The product tanker Torm Laura<\/em> answered the call and diverted to the scene. However, she was unable to carry out a rescue due to heavy seas, and she eventually departed.<\/p>\n On Friday morning, two additional AMVER vessels arrived: the tanker Magellan Spirit<\/em> and the gas carrier Ethane Sapphire<\/em>. The Ethane Sapphire<\/em> acted as a wind barricade for the Magellan Spirit to launch a small boat and safely transfer the two British mariners on board. The Magellan Spirit <\/em>and the rescuees are now en route to Spain.<\/p>\n The yacht was left adrift with her navigation lights on and her AIS activated, allowing her to be tracked for any future recovery operations. <\/p>\n “When a mariner is experiencing an emergency far offshore, it can be unrealistic to get a Coast Guard asset to the scene quickly,” said Lt. Daniel Dunn, command duty officer at the Fifth Coast Guard District command center. “The AMVER System allows us to coordinate a rescue utilizing nearby vessels willing to help.”<\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday morning, two good samaritan vessels worked together to rescue two British mariners from a disabled sailing yacht about 520 nm off the coast of Bermuda. Watchstanders at the Fifth U.S. Coast Guard District command center received a call from the Rescue Coordination Center United Kingdom early Wednesday morning. The UK authorities reported that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[5725,765,1134,5723,2691,5724,5722,1535,2175,2692,304],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-amver","tag-bermuda","tag-coast-guard","tag-ethane-sapphire","tag-good","tag-lt-daniel-dunn","tag-magellan-spirit","tag-rescue","tag-sailors","tag-samaritan","tag-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","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=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}