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Tanker rescued distressed single hand sailor

The Coastguard’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) received two distress beacon alerts from a yacht 700-miles west of Ireland in the evening of Oct 14.The vessel had extensive damage and was drifting in very poor weather conditions.Thanks to the two beacons onboard however, the Coastguard was able to locate the yacht and begin the search and rescue mission.The Coastguard asked the RAF to deploy two aircraft which identified the stricken yacht using coordinates provided by the JRCC, at around 8.20 a-m- on Oct 15. The RAF aircraft provided communications with the vessel while the Coastguard asked all shipping vessels within 300-miles to help. Three vessels responded, altering their courses to intercept the yacht.After four unsuccessful overnight attempts by a merchant vessel overnight, the sailor was rescued just after 6.30 a.m. on Oct 16 by the 'Amax Anthem'.The survivor was an American national and an experienced sailor. Report with video: https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/coastguard-rescues-sailor-700-miles-off-irish-coast-in-atlantic-ocean-urges-all-seafarers-to-have-an-epirbs-beacon-3883415