A total of 9 fishermen from Da Nang were rescued and brought home safely on Sunday after their boat had broken down at sea one day earlier.

The fishing boat DNa 90873 has been towed back to the mainland.

At around 8.00pm on Saturday, fishing boat DNa 90873 from Thanh Khe District’s Thanh Khe Dong Ward, with a total of 9 crew members onboard, unexpectedly suffered engine failure whilst fishing at latitude 16°232N and longitude 108°08’E, about 26 nautical miles northeast of the Da Nang coast. Unfortunately, the crew members were unable to make repairs.

After receiving an SOS message from the distressed boat’s captain, Mr Le Van Thanh, Colonel Ton Quoc Khanh, the commander of the Da Nang Border Guard High Command, in prompt fashion, urged the Phu Loc Border Guard Station to keep contact with the distressed boat.

Besides, ship BP 081202 from the Naval Flotilla No 2, with 9 rescuers, was then sent out to the scene to help the victims.

Finally, after about 10 hours of facing high waves and strong wind at sea, at around 3.00pm on Sunday, the rescue ship arrived at the scene, and then towed the distressed boat back to the mainland.

In a similar vein, a sick member of the crew of fishing boat TTH 94448 from Thua Thien Hue Province’s Phu Loc District was safely brought back to Da Nang for treatment on Sunday evening.

The rescue of the sick fisherman in progress

At around 10.27am on Sunday, 35-year-old fisherman Tran Co was reported to suffer from unexpected hemiplegia whilst his vessel was fishing at latitude 17°05’N and longitude 109°05’E, about 75 nautical miles off the Da Nang coast.

After receiving an SOS message from the boat’s captain, the Viet Nam Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (Viet Nam MRCC) immediately helped the boat’s crew members to contact doctors from the city’s Emergency Centre 115 to ask for first aid instructions.

According to the initial diagnosis, the victim was in a critical condition as he would have suffered a cerebral infarction.

Soon after, the Viet Nam MRCC asked the Da Nang MRCC to send out its rescue ship SAR 412, carrying doctors from the Emergency Centre 115, to help the victim.

At 3.00pm on the same day, SAR 412 reached the fishing boat, and the patient was, then, transferred to the rescue ship for first aid. Thanks to this, the sick fisherman was out of critical condition.

About over 3 hours later, the victim was safely brought back to the mainland for further treatment at a local hospital.