Maritime Rescue rescues 16 sailors from a Galician ship that sinks 9 miles from Pasaia. The ship is based in the Galician port of Bureba and uses the French flag because it operates off the French coast in hake fishing.
Throughout the day and much of the night yesterday, the Basque coast was hit by wind gusts exceeding 140 kilometers per hour. Last July, another Galician fishing vessel based in Burela, the 'Nuevo San Juan', suffered a fire and its 15 crew members were rescued.