U.S. Coast Guard/CWN
NORFOLK, Virginia (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard, a crew of scientists and others launched an air and sea mission to rescue 13 people, including a child, from a fishing vessel just moments before it sank in darkness in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia.
The Coast Guard said in a statement that it received a mayday call from the Tremont fishing vessel after it collided with a 1,000-foot cargo ship early on Friday, October 28.
A scientific research ship operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution sent an inflatable boat that took the sinking ship’s crew to another responding vessel.
A Coast Guard helicopter hoisted the captain from the Tremont just before it sank. No injuries were reported.
BY MARK PRATT AND BEN FINLEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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