Baldvin Þorsteinsson EA 10 ran aground
Last night the seine got stuck in the screw propeller of Baldvin Þorsteinsson EA 10. The ship was fishing capelin off the south coast of Iceland near Skardsfjorur. The ship started drifting towards the coast due to spring tide and southerly winds. Other purse seines that were fishing nearby came to the rescue but all wires and robes were torn. A distress signal was given and the Coast guards helicopter was soon in the air heading for the scene as well as rescue units onshore. The ships crew counts 16 men and the helicopter rescued all of them from the stranded ship and brought them to a nearby village Vik to rest. Baldvin Þorsteinsson EA 10 is 2.968 gross tonnage multi purpose fishing ship, built in Flekkefjord Norway 1994, lengthened in Riga Latvia in 2002. The ship is 86 meters long and 14 meters wide. The ship weighs totally around 5.600 tons, there of around 1.500 tons of capelin.
