{"id":45622,"date":"2014-07-25T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d1dd120a4b8c9a1e6a5006621c957123"},"modified":"2014-07-25T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T10:44:51","slug":"press-release-fishing-vessel-sinks-off-stornoway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45622","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Fishing vessel sinks off Stornoway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Stornoway Coastguard received a VHF <abbr title=\"Digital selective calling\">DSC<\/abbr> distress alert from the fishing vessel Osprey at 6.37pm on Wednesday 23 July 2014, which included a GPS location for the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Stornoway Coastguard sent the helicopter to the scene and requested the launch of Lochinver <abbr title=\"Royal National Lifeboat Institution\">RNLI<\/abbr> all weather lifeboat to the incident 10 miles south west of Cape Wrath.  <\/p>\n<p>When the Stornoway Coastguard rescue helicopter arrived in the area they quickly located the vessel which was found within one mile of the distress alert position and still afloat. <\/p>\n<p>The three crew were alongside in a life raft and the vessel sank shortly afterwards. All three crew were winched into the aircraft and transferred to the Western Isles Hospital at Stornoway to be checked for hypothermia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been rescued from a life raft by the Stornoway Coastguard rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}