DUBAI - Dubai police rescued 14 Asian sailors after their rail vehicle crashed into a breakwater on the island of Deira as a result of the surge, which coincided with the engine's engine failure.
Acting director of the port police station Colonel Said Al-Mudhani said that the Maritime Rescue Team was treated with high professionalism with the incident from the moment it received the letter and was keen to save the lives of the sailors despite the bad weather represented by the high winds and the surge in the wave.
He noted the efforts of the team, which managed to evacuate the boat and rescue the sailors successfully using the ropes of rescue and extended between the boat and the sea break because of the difficulty of the arrival of police boats to the scene.
He pointed out that the rescue team and divers managed to transport the sailors to safety in a 35-minute operation. At the same time, the sailors and shipowners were required to abide by the safety instructions and not to go to sea in the difficult weather conditions.
On the one hand, the head of the Dubai Maritime Rescue Department, Lieutenant Colonel Ali Abdullah Al-Qusayb al-Naqbi, said that the command and control room received a message at 6:14 yesterday morning that there were Asian sailors seeking to sink by sea off the waterfront of Deira Island because of The breakdown of the vehicle and the severity of the wind and the gravity of the waves.
He added that with patrols of the port police station in patrols, marine rescue boats, maritime security, joint patrols and the intervention of the air rescue helicopter, it was possible to reach the place of the boat by land, sea and air, but due to the difficulty of the situation caused by the wind and high waves could not be paved police boats near the boat because of the gravity of the impact And the high level compared to the police boats was the best idea to carry out the rescue of the extension of ropes of Alkasr and install it on the boat with taking all the safety measures for both rescuers and sailors.