2023-09-06 04:36:33
A cargo ship came to the rescue of two Russians and a Frenchman whose boat, named Tion-Russian Ocean Way and belonging to the Russian Geographical Society, had been attacked by sharks off Australia, reported Wednesday 6 September 2023 the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The three men were rescued by a cargo ship as they floated aboard a nine-metre inflatable catamaran in the shark-infested Coral Sea, some 835km southeast of the city of Cairns (northeast ).
“The two hulls of the boat were damaged following several shark attacks”the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in a statement.
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According to ASMA, the three surviving sailors wanted to reach the city of Cairns from the Vanuatu archipelago, located more than 2,000 km away. They had set sail on August 28.
Early Wednesday morning, around 1:30 a.m., they activated an emergency beacon.
Footage taken from a helicopter showed the massive Dugong Ace freighter approaching the catamaran which was floating in calm seas.
Safe and sound, the survivors should be dropped off in Brisbane on Thursday morning.
Australian authorities have released the names of the three sailors in charge. The Frenchman has been identified as Vincent Thomas Garate and his fellow Siberians Evgeny Kovalevsky and Stanislav Beryozkin
The Coral Sea is teeming with gray reef sharks and other species, such as tuna and marlin.
Australian government says home to more sharks “than almost any other monitored site in the world”.
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