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Sailors swim ashore for two hours after boat capsizes in north …

A sailing boat with two occupants has overturned on the Eemmeer in Blaricum in North Holland on Saturday evening. Both crew members saved themselves by swimming 1.5 kilometers to shore at marina ‘t Raboes in Eemnes, a swim that took them almost two hours. This is reported by the Royal Dutch Rescue Society (KNRM) from Blaricum.

One of the men was injured because fuel leaked from the outboard after the overturn, a spokesman for the KNRM said. “That fuel is a corrosive substance and it has burns …

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