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Fishing boat crew rescued

Nov 28, 2008 News

Following the robbery of the fishing boat the ‘Mark Counter 2’ by pirates in the Atlantic Ocean, just off of the Mahaicony Foreshore, East Coast Demerara, the police have reported that all of the crew members of the vessel have been found, alive and well.

The boat, along with an engine, which was stolen by the pirates, was discovered yesterday morning at the Rose Hall Foreshore, Corentyne.

The army has added that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard discovered the boat yesterday morning at approximately 10:00 hours just off the #19 Foreshore, Corentyne, with all of its fishing seines, catch, and engines intact.

The army has reported that the five crew members were placed into another vessel and set adrift. They made it to shore and immediately reported that matter to the Coast Guard in New Amsterdam.

Upon receiving the report, the army said that the Guard’s Raider Craft 16 (RC16) vessel was immediately dispatched. The Coast Guard vessel stopped and searched several vessels from the coastland to points nearest the incident’s occurrence. The search was discontinued at 18:15 hours on November 26 and resumed yesterday morning.

The Coast Guard reported seeing some men in a clump of bushes in the environs where the vessel was recovered. As the Coast Guard approached the men, they took flight. The Coast Guard then recovered the abandoned boat and towed it to Rosignol.

The Coast Guard has said that it will continue “to fight the scourge of piracy occurring along Guyana’s coastlands.”

The crew members of two separate boats suffered attacks from pirates on November 25. The pirates relieved the seamen of the first vessel of a 48 H.P outboard engine and a drum of gasoline before setting them adrift.

After this, the pirates went to the ‘Mark Counter 2’ where they relieved the crew members of their vessel, setting them adrift in a smaller craft.

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