A fisherman has died and another has been seriously injured on board a Spanish fishing vessel, off the Kerry coast.<\/p>\n
The alarm was raised just after 9am, when the Coast Guard’s Marine Rescue Co-Ordination Centre in Valentia, Co Kerry, received a call from Spanish counterparts in Madrid.<\/p>\n
It is understood the two men were injured when a rope snapped on board the fishing vessel, called Novoalborada.<\/p>\n
One of the men later died on board the vessel before he could be treated and brought to hospital.<\/p>\n
A rescue operation was initiated, coordinated from Valentia, and involving the Coast Guard fixed-wing plane and two Coast Guard helicopters, 115 from Shannon and 118 from Waterford.<\/p>\n
The injured crewmen was taken on board Rescue 118 and is being transferred to Cork University Hospital.<\/p>\n
Conditions at sea are described as “very challenging” with swells of five to six metres. Both helicopters have had to re-fuel during the operation.<\/p>\n
The trawler steamed closer to more sheltered waters off the Kerry coastline to take the second fisherman on board one of the helicopters.<\/p>\n
Arrangements are now being made to transfer his body to the closest port, which will probably be Daingean U\u00ed Ch\u00fais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fisherman has died and another has been seriously injured on board a Spanish fishing vessel, off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-285922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}