Hello this is a news update from the yacht channel and we've decided to cover some of these maritime
events that are showing up on youtube and on the news and when there's something particularly
interesting uh i like to study it personally so i'm going to do that with you here and show you
this amazing footage of a air sea rescue of a ship off the coast of Norway the story is about this
vessel which is a about a 360 foot heavy lift vessel it's called the Eemslift Hendrikabuilt
in 2015 so it's fairly modern good-looking boat they use it to transport other vessels so there
it is with some work boats on board and it also uh there's a little yacht there but it hauls
yachts and work boats and it's currently right now two days after this incident which is ongoing um
it's about 50 miles off the northern coast of Norway so it's it's way up North in Europe
so there's Greenland Iceland Norway so this is some fairly nasty water this time of year
they're saying that the waves are currently 10 to 15 meters so uh over 50 feet in wave height what's
being reported is that the captain called in a distress that they had lost power and although
at this point you can see that the props are turning so they didn't lose power at this point
but they said that the cargo shifted here you can see how the cargo's laid out on board the deck
um you've got a fairly large I think it's a 26 meter work boat in the middle here
and it you know they're saying that the deck cargo shifted that i don't see anything that's
shifted here these are the thwart ships they're sideways on the hull so they're not shifted
there's something missing there maybe there was a boat there maybe there wasn't this baby here
they're listing to starboard but you can see there's a crane right there so I don't think that
thing is going very far to starboard um this boat eventually fell off we got some pictures of that
so that's part of the uh excitement here so they're in uh nasty seas they're rolling badly
they're listing uh quite far to starboard and the captain ordered everybody off the boat except
for himself and three crew members and so the Norwegian coast guard helicopters that you're
going to see in this video is fantastic footage came out and plucked the crew members off the deck
and they also i suppose asked them to jump overboard because the boat was uh rocking so much
they did a couple of pickups it looks like from the water
and you'll see that it's just just spectacular footage and they're just incredibly skilled
and everybody's also quite brave to be out there doing this but that's their jobs so there's seven
on the deck that you can count there and they hoisted them on up one at a time and everybody
seems to have gotten off except for one guy you'll also notice on the stern of the vessel
on the starboard side is a lifeboat and for some reason they decide not to use that but
the idea of those life boats you can see how it's pointed down there like a torpedo is they
jump that they launch straight into the ocean so now you're gonna check this out on the starboard
stern quarter you see there's a little guy just jumped overboard there into the prop wash
just an astounding move it looks like he was the last guy on board they must have told him to bail
out but uh that is a ballsy move so here comes a rescue diver with his flippers to fetch this guy
and he is a lucky guy and that is a very skillful operation by the Norwegian coast guard so that
guy's up and away check the size of that league 360 foot vessel just took a tumble off that is
gigantic the current situation this is now two days out from the initial problem the boat was
eventually completely abandoned by the captain and the other three crew members
and it was they lost power and it was adrift and so it's currently uh drifting towards
the coast of Norway which is very rugged and rocky and it will not survive meeting that coast and so
the owners of the vessel have dispatched these Smit salvage teams to go out there
uh with some big tugs and try to get somebody on board and hook it up and uh tow this boat into
a safe port however between these pictures that we're seeing here and the arrival of the tugs
you can see in this photograph here which i'll put on the screen so this is a later photograph
and now you can see that that big vessel in the middle is no longer there you'll also recall that
there was a crane arm that was on the starboard side next to that vessel and it's gone so
presumably that vessel rolled off to starboard and took the crane arm with it which would make the
boat more stable and uh give it a better chance of surviving this incident so here's a picture of
the vessel the commercial vessel 26 27 meters that was on the deck and that is a shot of its
adrift uh somewhere near the mother ship waiting to get picked up by salvers or another
tug or tow boat and brought into port so this is a story that's still unfolding you'll see some
news if you know where to look the Norwegian coast guard the way that they plucked these
people off the boat it's really cool so that's it for the today's update on this situation
if there's any other interesting news we'll do a follow-up we'll grab some footage and
show it to you but uh in the meantime please subscribe to the yacht channel and stay tuned
because i'm going to do more of these news updates for our subscribers because there's
a lot of stuff that goes on in the commercial world and with the yachts a lot of people have
seen the sinking of yogi and i see that there's a new round of interest in that on youtube
we're not going to cover that because it's been covered many times over but
there are always interesting things going on at sea and we're going to bring you more of those
in these news updates so i hope you uh let me know in your comments if you like these and
what else you might be interested in and that's it for me today Paul Madden at the Yacht Channel.