RESCUE UNITS CALLED TO YACHT OFF DEAL IN 50 KNOT WINDS
Press Notice:001-12 3 January 2012
At 05.11 am, the skipper of a forty foot yacht made an urgency call reporting that they were having difficulty. The yacht Liquid Vortex with seven crew on board, has five crew suffering with sea sickness and one crewman has sustained possible injury to his jaw and ribs after sustaining a fall on the yacht. Dover Coastguard called out Coastguard rescue teams from Margate. RNLI lifeboats from Dungeness and Dover have been requested to launch and a rescue helicopter has also been requested. The vessel is on passage from Southampton to London. Spike Hughes, from Dover Coastguard said: The skipper of the yacht called Dover Coastguard to request assistance after one of his crew had sustained possible injuries. The weather conditions at this time are 50 knot winds and swells of 3-5 metres.
At 05.11 am, the skipper of a forty foot yacht made an urgency call reporting that they were having difficulty. The yacht Liquid Vortex with seven crew on board, has five crew suffering with sea sickness and one crewman has sustained possible injury to his jaw and ribs after sustaining a fall on the yacht. Dover Coastguard called out Coastguard rescue teams from Margate. RNLI lifeboats from Dungeness and Dover have been requested to launch and a rescue helicopter has also been requested. The vessel is on passage from Southampton to London. Spike Hughes, from Dover Coastguard said: The skipper of the yacht called Dover Coastguard to request assistance after one of his crew had sustained possible injuries. The weather conditions at this time are 50 knot winds and swells of 3-5 metres.