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Fish carrier adrfit off Ibiza

Salvamento Marítimo was called to assist the "Scan Viking" which was disabled and adrift with four crew members on board 30 miles NE of the port of Ibiza in the night of March 26, 2017. The loaded live fish carrier had suffered a failure of the engine enroute from Palma to Alicante. The Rescue Coordination Center in Palma deployed the "Guardamar Calíope" to assist. After a complicated towing operation of more than eight hours, which started at 11.20 a.m. and was carried out in adverse weather conditions, the convoy arrived in the port of Ibiza on March 27 at 8.22 a.m. The "Scan Viking" left the port of refuge again on March 27 at 10.45 p.m. again and headed to Gramabasa, ETA March 28 at 3 p.m. Spanish reports with photo and video: http://www.diariodeibiza.es/pitiuses-balears/2017/03/27/salvamento-maritimo-rescata-barco-deriva/905339.html https://periodicodeibiza.es/pitiusas/local/2017/03/28/257568/salvamento-maritimo-rescata-barco-estaba-deriva-millas-ibiza.html