A boat stranded at Reykjanes

In the fifth time of the night, the crews of the rescue ship Hannes Th. Hafstein and the lifeboat Njarð called out of the Coast Guard’s control station, due to a coastal fishing boat that had stranded on a small isle or cut, opposite a small island, just north of the Golf Course in Reykjanes.

In a statement from the Landsbjörg Accident Protection Agency, the boat has landed in a rocky tide.

When rescue forces arrived, a crew member had come ashore. Rescue forces began trying to save the boat, including by bringing the pods and pumping it, but a considerable sea had arrived.

The boat was then reached from a coastal site, but turned out to be too damaged to pull land and sank. After cleaning loose items that moved around the boat, it was held to the port of Keflavik where it was now in the eighth time. The crew member was transported for treatment.

This is a ninth call on the rescue vessel of the Landsbjörg Accident Company over the past two days.