Njord: One lifeless after Scottish fishing vessel capsizes off Norway
One person has died after a Scottish fishing vessel with 8 humans on board capsized off Norway.
Njord, that is registered in Peterhead, got into issue and capsized in the North Sea around 100 nautical miles west of Stavanger.
The Norwegian Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre said the alarm become just earlier than 2pm on Sunday.
Three humans were winched into a search and rescue helicopter and had been flown to Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen wherein certainly one of them in the end died.
A spokesman for the JRCC said all three had inhaled diesel.
The different five people had been picked up by means of the Olympic Challenger, an oil industry offshore vessel, which had spoke back to the Mayday relay issued by means of rescue services calling on vessels nearby to help.
They were later taken to Stavanger through rescue helicopter.
According to the BBC, the JRCC said there was no radio contact with the troubled 24m vessel however they had been routinely alerted by the trawler's emergency role-indicating radio beacon, which activated while it commenced taking on water.
No info regarding the person who has died or the group individuals worried in the incident off Norway have been launched.
A NJRCC spokesman stated: “When we have been alerted we sent out sources and observed eight humans standing on the keel of the capsized fishing vessel.
“Three were taken into a search and rescue helicopter and five human beings had been picked up by using boat after we issued a Mayday relay.”
The NJRCC said the vessel is registered in Lerwick, but, it reportedly left Peterhead on the weekend.
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