Four rescue ships on the same time

The sea rescue teams of the Landsbjörg Accident Protection Company have gone on five calls from midnight, which is unusually large on the farm.

Just up to one o’clock in the night, the Emergency Line received a report from people who had been sailing in the middle of Seyðisfjörður on a small entertainment boat. The boat had overturned and the people who were on board, five people, had arrived on the run of the boat, as stated in the announcement.

Lifeboats launched

This calls for the rescue team Ísólfur in Seyðisfjörður, which launched a rescue boat, the rescue ship Hafbjörg in Neskaupstaður, as well as smaller rescue boat of the rescue team Gerpis in Neskaupstaður. The crew of the Coast Guard helicopter was also called out.

About twenty minutes after the call, all crew members on board Ísolf’s rescue boat, Árna Vilhjálmsson, had been rescued, and others were turned around, ships, boats and helicopters. The people were moved ashore and was not hurt by this mishap. Árni Vilhjálmur’s crew then returned to the accident site and managed to get the boat on track and pull to the port. Action in Seyðisfjörður was over from three last night.

Four more call -outs

In the morning, four calls for coastal fishing boats were in trouble.

The first was due to a boat on the Gulf of Faxi, just off the South Hraun, which had suffered a engine failure. A crew member had to kill the boat or the sea if the sea had flowed in. The rescue boat Margrét Guðbrand from the Akranes Björgunarfélagi took the boat in tow.

In trouble in Isafjardardjup

Only just over ten minutes later, a call was received for a boat in Ísafjörður, which was without engine power. The rescue team Kafri took on that project on the new rescue boat of the quorum, Svan.

An hour later, or just up from eight o’clock, a request from a small fishing boat in the mouth of Patreksfjordur, was received again due to engine failure. The Rescue Ship Vörður II immediately went out for assistance and took the boat in a tight fog.

About nine o’clock this morning, the fifth call was received when the crew of Hannes Þ Hafstein, the rescue ship in Sandgerði, was called out because of a small fishing boat located west of the South Hraun with a malfunctioning machine.

« In cases, outside the incident in Seyðisfjörður, there was no direct risk of trips, but certainly it is unusual that at the same time there are four company ships at sea, with boats in tow on their way to port, » says the announcement.