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The three persons aboard the vessel activated a Personal Locator Beacon and an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB).
The final distress call came from a PLB, which led to the discovery of an upturned vessel with three people in the water nearby.
Seychelles Coast Guard Maritime Operations Centre received an emergency report regarding an EPIRB alert from the vessel.
The 4 people on the sinking vessel deployed a life raft and activated their registered personal locator beacon.Â
After receiving the beacon’s signal, AMSA sent a rescue aircraft to the location and secured the assistance of a carrier ship.
Honolulu watchstanders engaged with Kiribati search and rescue team to offer assistance with locating a sailing vessel after an EPIRB activation.
The boaters were in the water for five hours, far off coast, before the Coast Guard rescued them after PLB activation.
The initial alert came from the vessel’s EPIRB. The rescue helicopter arrived on scene about 1.5 later and located the mariner.
AMSA detected the vessel’s emergency beacon tasking a rescue aircraft and two rescue helicopters to the scene.
