Coast Guard rescues six fishermen from drifting boat

The Indian Coast Guard rescued six unit members of a mechanised sportfishing vessel aft it drifted astir 300 kilometers into the heavy sea. The vessel and its full unit was safely brought ashore astatine Visakhapatnam astatine 4 a.m. connected Wednesday.

The vessel, identified arsenic ‘MM-108’ belonging to B. Raju of Visakhapatnam, had primitively acceptable sail from the Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour connected March 5, arsenic portion of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) Deep Sea Fishing Project. The ngo turned captious connected March 12 erstwhile the vessel suffered full motor failure.