The port police station, in cooperation with the Dubai Police Air Rescue, rescued 14 sailors after their huge iron craft and crashed into the breakwater rocks at the Deira Island waterfront because of the high winds caused by the wind, which coincided with the engine's engine failure. To control it.
Acting Director of the Port Police Department, Col. Saeed Al-Mudhani, said that the Maritime Rescue Team was treated with high professionalism with the incident from the moment of receiving the letter, despite the bad weather conditions of the high winds and the high wave. He pointed out that the crew was able to evacuate the boat and rescue the sailors using Is an innovative way of connecting the rescue lines between the boat and the sea bumper, because of the difficulty of the arrival of police boats to the scene.
He added that the rescue team and divers managed to transport the sailors to safety in a 35-minute operation, urging seafarers and shipowners to comply with safety instructions and not to go to sea in difficult weather conditions and high tide ratios.
For his part, the head of Dubai Maritime Rescue Department, Lieutenant Colonel Ali Abdullah Al-Qassaybi Al-Naqbi, said that the command and control room received a message at 6:14 am yesterday, stating that Asians were waiting to drown off the waterfront of Deira Island due to disruptions, the waves.
He added that the marine rescue boats and joint patrols in the port police station moved with the air rescue helicopter, and began to carry out the operation by land, sea and air, but due to the difficulty of the situation caused by the intensity of the wind and the high waves of police boats could not reach near the huge iron complex, because of the likelihood of collision, With the police boats, the team proceeded to extend the ropes and install them on the boat while taking all safety measures for both rescuers and sailors. Rescuers and divers managed to transport the sailors one after the other to safety, as well as transporting their belongings and providing first aid For those in need.
Rescue Team
Divers transfer
Sailors to safety
In the process lasted
35 minutes.