Another Strange Rescue…

[Dino]

Following on from the Penlee rescue I posted about a few days ago, here’s another bonkers rescue along the West Coast of Ireland. 2 guys sailing from the Caribbean to Ibiza capsized a 50 footer off Achill Island and got washed ashore. No VHF or mobile phones. They were three days shipwrecked on a hidden beach until on of the guys climbed a seriously difficult cliff to raise the alarm.
You would have to wonder what was going on here…

Sailors rescued after yacht washes ashore on Achill
Sailors rescued after yacht washes ashore on Achill

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...UXt3TUF5wEdX3i8D1VHzcyku1l&id=100067088004336

 

[mrming]

Have they looked inside the mast yet?

 

[Biggles Wader]

If they were headed for Ibiza and ended up in Ireland I suspect they might have broached the "cargo" en route.

 

[Dino]

There’s not much of the mast left…

 

[Concerto]

No passports (one person was Columbian).
No navigational equipment.
No identifaction documentation.
No VHF or radio.
No mobile phones.
No flare.
No water.

They were totally unprepared for a cross ocean passage.

 

[Resolution]

Was it their yacht? Or had they just "borrowed" it?

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

No passports (one person was Columbian).
No navigational equipment.
No identifaction documentation.
No VHF or radio.
No mobile phones.
No flare.
No water.

They were totally unprepared for a cross ocean passage.

Sometimes media reports written by journalists who have no familiarity with maritime matters get it wrong.
I would pose the question; " Who said they had none of these items."
If they were airlifted from the beach, perhaps all their possessions remained on the wreck. If they are seriously suspect, the Garda Sub-Aqua Unit will have been deployed to make a forensic examination of the hull and the site, and a press statement will be realeased in due course.
Edit: While that online report appears to be under the byeline of an RTE reporter, there was no report of this incident on last night's evening news on RTE TV, nor on this morning's news on radio.

 

[laika]

They were totally unprepared for a cross ocean passage.

Frank Mulville recommended Dexedrine for alertness on long offshore passages. I wonder whether they were at least partially prepared?

 

[Dino]

Achill Coastguard reported it on Facebook on Saturday. I’m not sure if the broadcast media picked up on it but it was on a lot of the newspaper websites.

Sometimes media reports written by journalists who have no familiarity with maritime matters get it wrong.
I would pose the question; " Who said they had none of these items."
If they were airlifted from the beach, perhaps all their possessions remained on the wreck. If they are seriously suspect, the Garda Sub-Aqua Unit will have been deployed to make a forensic examination of the hull and the site, and a press statement will be realeased in due course.
Edit: While that online report appears to be under the byeline of an RTE reporter, there was no report of this incident on last night's evening news on RTE TV, nor on this morning's news on radio.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Very little further has emerged on this mysterious story. Todays "Afloat Update" had this report from the Examiner newspaper, which did not shed much further light:
Sailors Recovering After Yacht Washes Ashore on Achill Island