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A Day in the Life of the Coastguard: Lone yachtsman search

8:56 PM Thu 7 Apr 2011 GMT

'A day in the life of...' .

At 3pm yesterday (Thursday),the UK's Portland Coastguard received a VHF call from a vessel on passage from Portland to Par who had intercepted a VHF radio call from a yacht. The skipper of the vessel Sea Seeker passed information received from the yacht. The skipper of the yacht had been calling on his radio but his signal was not being received by the Coastguard possibly due to weak radio signal. The skipper of Sea Seeker relayed information from the lone yachtsman, who was reporting that he had engine failure and was drifting. He also was passing coordinates that were inaccurate. ...

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