Six people have been rescued from a yacht after it ran aground and was thought to be taking on water. Stornoway Coastguard received a mayday call at 11.41pm last night alerting them to the boat in distress in the Sound of Mull. The yacht had two adults and four children on board and the occupiers feared it was sinking.
Coastguard teams launched an air and sea mission to get to the aid of the boat, which was stranded near Calve Island, south east of Tobermory Bay. The Oban lifeboat and the Rescue 951 helicopter from Inverness were sent to the scene, a coastguard spokesman said. The lifeboat was first on the scene and managed to rescue everyone on board. The helicopter stood by and provided lighting in the area.
"There were no injuries and everyone was taken off safely," the spokesman said.
The boat was floated off at high tide earlier today.
Call me a synic but it sounds like someone left Tobers with the tide to go SE and went aground. Everyone was lifted off whether they wanted to be or not, and the Yacht was OK, as indeed the people would have been. The boat floated when the tide was right, end of story.
aquaplane wrote:Call me a synic but it sounds like someone left Tobers with the tide to go SE and went aground. Everyone was lifted off whether they wanted to be or not, and the Yacht was OK, as indeed the people would have been. The boat floated when the tide was right, end of story.
