Quick thinking an ingenuity saves sinking catamaran

10:35 PM Thu 27 Aug 2009 GMT

'Catamaran Camelot with liferaft inside cockpit to prevent it from sinking' .

Quick thinking and ingenuity on the part of some rescuers has saved a catamaran from sinking after a collision. The lifeboat crew, called to the rescue scene, quickly inflated the liferaft of the catamaran and shoved it inside the cockpit of the sinking boat, thus keeping it afloat.

The vessels, the catamaran Camelot and a fishing boat, Hayley Marie, collided approximately 1.6 nautical miles south of Pendennis Point in Falmouth, Cornwall on the southern coast of Britain.

The bow of the fishing boat was damaged. Its single sailor, a man from Truro, was unhurt.

Several boats answered the Camelot's mayday call, including the Falmouth pilot boat, the Cornwall Fire Brigade rescue boat and the Falmouth lifeboat, and a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose was also dispatched to the scene.

The family of five on board the catamaran were forced to abandon their vessel, which was sinking, and were transferred to the Falmouth lifeboat. While they, and their two dogs, were unhurt, they have been saved from the loss of their boat by the quick thinking of the lifeboat crew, and they will now be able to salvage the vessel.

by Nancy Knudsen

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