Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Amver ship saves German sailors

Four German sailors were rescued by the Amver participating vessel Bow Engineer after Argentinian rescue authorities requested and Amver surface picture.  The German sailors's boat had lost power when they requested assistance.The Bow Engineer enrolled in the Amver system on April 21, 2006 and is managed by the Norwegian Ofdjell company.

The rescue took place at the yellow pin on the photo to the right. We'll provide more updates as we learn the details.

1 comment:

  1. It is great for this German sailor to have someone who helped him in that disaster. On this area, there are only few boats are present.

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