Warnemünde/Sassnitz (dpa/mv) - Sea rescuers rescued four sailors in two missions on Friday night from a helpless situation in the Baltic Sea. In the first case, the emergency services of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons (DGzRS) came to the aid of the completely exhausted and soaked crew of two of a sailing yacht in very rough seas and strong winds, as the association announced on Saturday.
The boat was about 14 kilometers west of Ahrenshoop near a dangerous sea area of the Baltic Sea and was no longer able to move when the waves were two meters high. The sea rescue cruiser "Arkona" was able to free the sailing duo from their predicament on the approximately ten meter long sailing boat and bring them safely to the port of Warnemünde.
A few hours later, a sailor east of the island of Rügen reported a broken mast on his yacht and a line caught in the propeller. Here, too, the exhausted and excited duo could no longer continue on their own shortly after midnight. With the help of a night vision device, the sea rescuers found the nine-meter-long boat about 24 kilometers east of Sassnitz after a long search early on Saturday morning and accompanied the crew safely on land.
