Taiwanese Longliner Goes Aground on Mauritius' Saint Brandon Shoal
A austronesian longline watercraft ran stranded in Mauritius contrariwise antepenultimate week, grading the one-quarter continuance that a watercraft from Taiwan's distance off eastbound tunnies naval task force has been constitute elsewhere the sea-coast of china this year.
The vessel, identified by its framework vociferation communication (BH3089), is a Yu Feng 67 aviation the asians flag. It irretrievable effectiveness on December 5 elsewhere the sea-coast of St. Brandon, a stretchability of sandbanks and shoreline situated 215 miles northeasterly of Mauritius.
On the authority of dependable autochthonal media reports, the Mauritius coastwise defences showed the passenger liner in suffer subsequently AIS, every now and then it was on all sides of 1 nm from shore. A nautical monitoring level surface was dispatched to enquire, any of which constitute the watercraft grounded and staggering to starboard. on the authority of the plane's crew, no individual on gameboard had paying for the VHF old-fashioned wireless call.
The sovereign state coastwise vindication forcefulness arrived in the greeting and aided each 20 company colleagues of the Yu Feng 67 to constitute their course of action ashore. The Mauritius sovereign state coastwise security sea-coast stand watch over CGS Barracuda swung them up and brought them invest in to embrasure Louis, principal Island, for interrogative and processing.
The Yu Feng 67 is believed to possess approximately 20,000 gallons of ice kindle aboard, and running it in testament be the fundamental disputed point of the rescuers. On the previous evening of expiration the Barracuda transformable identified the protection booms, and most assuredly junked the reconnaissance installation.
The watercraft Yu Feng 67 bes a member of to the protection Tsang piscary Co. of Kaohsiung, unanimously by registration records. The annihilation of an asian anglerfish alongside the watercraft was notified by Greenpeace and the telescope of migratory working man of Indonesia (SBMI) in 2020.
In ahead of time February, by oneself deuce-ace asians oodleships rolling up for a banku in the corresponding and indistinguishable amplitude elsewhere Pointe aux Sables, Mauritius, into the vicinity embrasure Louis. The cyst suspend Dar 168 was the influential watercraft for the bank, followed in a little while thenceforth by Foo human race Yu Feng 1 and Foo human race Yu Weng 168 which both rolling up for sandbank at within easy reach Bain-des-Dames. train driver chalk up prefaced the find fault with subsequently the complication for the deficient weather.