Fatal boat crash off Shoreham

It does indeed.
Any sign of the boat wreckage, I wonder?
If the man had been in the water "for several hours" that puts a probable incident around/just after midnight; so what sort of "crash" could it have been at that time of night, fairly well inshore??

Speeding-out to a fishing ground? Pleasure fishermen in small boat ploughed-down by something big?

Hopes go out for the other three
 
Major Search operation after two boats collided near Shoreham

Breaking News this morning after two boats collided in the Shoreham area!!!! Reports 1 dead and 3 missing..........
 
Tragic! Four Romanians on a fishing trip. The FSU states do like their fishing as it is traditionally a free source of food, still very common and fish is a big deal in Russia and FSU states. Is that bloke that drifts around the Pacific asking for a tow and may have died not Romanian? I friend, old man now, is ex Czechoslovakian and walked out of the communist country, ended up in California and became a boat (yacht) builder. Now lives in the UK. Maybe it's in their blood, this need to be at sea.
 
Were there three on board? Or four?

Not that it makes a difference, it's still very sad however many, just I can't work out the article at all
 
pvb said:
Four. One survivor, one found dead, two still missing.
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Elvis Cojocariu is the survivor.
The missing men, who emergency services searched for in vain for eight hours, are father-of-four Mitch Ilie, the owner of a bike repair shop in Elm Grove, Brighton, and his brother-in-law and father-of-three Irinez Popovici, who lives close by in Lewes Road.
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That only makes three, there's no mention of a fourth person other than in the text, nor that a man was found dead - I'm assuming that if one has died that they haven't yet released his name until relatives have been informed then?
 
Prima said:
That only makes three, there's no mention of a fourth person other than in the text, nor that a man was found dead - I'm assuming that if one has died that they haven't yet released his name until relatives have been informed then?
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There were four. Read the BBC report in post 1.
 
Just read a report in the Mail from the survivor. Seems they had no safety kit and at least one could not swim. The bigger boat only clipped them but enough to sink them. Gave them a bit of time to prepare, but no LJs or apparently even a mobile to call for help.
 
DownWest said:
Just read a report in the Mail from the survivor. Seems they had no safety kit and at least one could not swim. The bigger boat only clipped them but enough to sink them. Gave them a bit of time to prepare, but no LJs or apparently even a mobile to call for help.
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Humm will be interesting to learn if there were any nav lights on at the time, by either boat ?
Or indeed if the sunken boat was actually underway at the time, leading to watch keeping duties ?
 
Capt Popeye said:
Or indeed if the sunken boat was actually underway at the time, leading to watch keeping duties ?
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From the article linked in #9:

The four men set out from Shoreham Harbour at about 10.30pm, heading out ten miles in the direction of the Rampion Windfarm where they then stopped the boat but did not put down anchor.
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Underway, not making way (at least, not until they turned on the engine after spotting the other vessel).
 
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Angele said:
From the article linked in #9:



Underway, not making way (at least, not until they turned on the engine after spotting the other vessel).
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Humm thank you for that pointer, Angel; so no info yet upon whether they had the Nav or At Anchor lights on, though !
Might have been preoccupied with landing the catch to notice the other Craft approaching them, all supposition though at the mo.
A dreadful loss of life for the friends and family though
 
Capt Popeye said:
Humm will be interesting to learn if there were any nav lights on at the time, by either boat ?
Or indeed if the sunken boat was actually underway at the time, leading to watch keeping duties ?
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Think there were friends doing a bit of amateur mackeral fishing. The survivor says they tried to attract the attention of the other vessel with lights & 'head lights', then started the engine to get out of the way.
 
According to a Romanian newspaper based in the UK, this is the boat they were in, "James2"

http://clickromania.co.uk/victimele-din-canalul-manecii/

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