4th sealing vessel is lost during hunt (nobody harmed)

[flvegan]

Sealers safe after fleeing ship drifting ashore

Six fishermen managed to escape from their vessel Monday night off Newfoundland's west coast, before it ran ashore.

The men, who had been participating in the seal hunt, decided to abandon the B.S. Venture after it ran into mechanical trouble and then started drifting close to rocks.

The men used a speedboat they had brought with them to make it safely to Rocky Harbour.

None of them was injured.

An official with the Canadian Coast Guard said the vessel was beat up on the shore early Tuesday morning.

The incident was the second on Monday involving sealers in distress. Five sealers escaped from the burning Lucy May off the coast of Catalina, on Newfoundland's northeast coast, and were rescued by a Cormorant helicopter. Their ship burned to the waterline.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/04/15/sealers-escape.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a3:g2:r2:c0.0928477

Glad nobody was hurt.