Boat crew rescued after heavy fog collision

Posted on March 20^th 2009

The collision happened as the boat collided with a merchant ship a few miles off the coast of the Lizard, the crew where on their way back to France after just having collected the new vessel.

Fortunately the craft was not badly damaged so was able to sail back to Falmouth for repairs, a helicopter was called out but stood down as is saw the vessel was not sinking.

The incident happened on Wednesday at around 1220 GMT, visibility was down to around 300m when the merchant ship saw it had around three minutes to avoid hitting the vessel but unfortunately did so. This could have been much worse.

Thus incident has been reported to the Marine Accident Investigation Branch for further investigation.

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