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Water ingress off Borkum
On July 29, 2015, at 2 a.m. the "Nordlicht" radioed a Mayday after having suffered water ingress in the engine room which could not be controlled by the two fishermen aboard. The engine failed, and the ship went adrift 1,5 miles west of Borkum island in the Ems fairway. Bremen Rescue Radio alerted the lifeboat "Alfried Krupp" from Borkum which managed to take the ship in tow in winds of 5 Beaufort and wave heights of 1,5 meters. They took the vessel alongside and transferred dewatering pumps aboard with which the water Ingress could be controlled. Then the "Nordlicht" was towed into the port of Borkum.
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