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A ship on fire off the coast of Sicily
The 12 crew members of the "Bellatrix" were rescued
April 8, 2020
The Coast Guard announced that this morning the Captaincy of Port of Reggio Calabria received via Palermo radio the mayday of a merchant ship with fire on board. The distress call, for a fire no longer controllable in the engine room, stern of the ship, was launched around 7 a.m. from Bellatrix,with 12 people on board, who was at more than 180 miles southeast of Catania in Italian waters SAR (Search and Rescue)
The Reggio Calabria Coast Guard, assumed the coordination of the rescue, ordered the sending of a 300-class ship from Roccella Jonica while from the Coast Guard Operations Center in Rome (Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) all ships in transit in the area. From the 2nd Core Catania coast guard aircraft was taken off a P180 aircraft along with an ATR 42 from the 1st Aircraft Core of the Pescara Coast Guard and were eventually diverted to the area also the Ship Diciotti of the Coast Guard and the ship Alpine and an ATR72 of the Navy.
The 12 crew members of the Bellatrix,which beats Russian flag and is operated by the Turkish Elbrus Maritime, are were rescued by the ship Arife in transit in the area, while the ship will be reached in the next 36 hours by a tugboat hired by the company for the subsequent recovery to the port of Aliaga in Turkey.
The Coast Guard has specified that, from the information the ship is unloaded and at the moment there are no pollution in the affected area is constantly visible monitored with the on-board systems of the aircraft and ships of the Coast Guard.
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The Coast Guard announced that this morning the Captaincy of Port of Reggio Calabria received via Palermo radio the mayday of a merchant ship with fire on board. The distress call, for a fire no longer controllable in the engine room, stern of the ship, was launched around 7 a.m. from Bellatrix,with 12 people on board, who was at more than 180 miles southeast of Catania in Italian waters SAR (Search and Rescue)
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