Pacific Princess rescues fishermen in North Sea

Princess Cruises’ ship Pacific Princess has rescued three fishermen from a life raft in the North Sea after their boat sank.
Passengers applauded, then Tweeted, as the three were brought aboard on Saturday evening, after the captain responded to a distress flare 25 miles off the Norfolk coast.
The ship was on a cruise around the British Isles when the rescue happened. It then spent two hours searching for two other men, before returning to Dover.
Coastguard operations controller Lee Duncan said: "The three recovered men had been in the life raft for four hours before they were spotted by the cruise ship."
The search is continuing for the other two men.

Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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