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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:23 PM Jul 2012

Please send boat to rescue rescue-boat

Bad to worse..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176467/Aberdeen-Bay-Double-trouble-sailors-boat-gets-caught-rocks-rescue-vessel-gets-stranded-too.html

Ooops! Double trouble for sailors as their boat gets caught on rocks… then vessel sent to rescue them is stranded too

By David Wilkes

PUBLISHED: 07:42 EST, 20 July 2012 | UPDATED: 08:53 EST, 21 July 2012


ween a rock and a hard place: A North Star Shipping rescue boat, left, went to the rescue of the company's rib Grampian Talisman, right, but both ended up stranded on the rocks in Aberdeen bay


As if one rescue boat running aground wasn't embarrassing enough, this was the moment when a crew sent to its aid ended up on the rocks too.

The first vessel drifted into difficulties after its engine cut out during a training exercise.

But the fast rescue boat that went to help was also left high and dry when stormy seas forced it on to the rocks just feet away.




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