And 30 meter fishing boat of length has been sunken this Thursday at a depth of about 17 meters without causing injuries in front of the Almadrava de Roses beachaccording to the Firefighters. There were no injuries and five fishermen They could have been rescued by another fishing boat, reports the digital Empordafrom the Prensa Ibérica group.
This is the boat of the Chief Patron of the Roses Fishermen’s Guild and president of the Territorial Federation of Girona Brotherhoods, Antoni Abad. Due to the accident, there was a fuel exhaustIt is 200 meters from the port that the Generalitat Firefighters and Maritime Rescue were already able to contain.
The 30-meter-long boat, ‘Toni Li Segundo’, sank at around 9:38 a.m. off Falconera Point, about 200 meters from the port and 17 meters deep. Emergency services are working to immobilize the 75 meters of the containment barrier and prevent it from moving. Preventively, l’Almadrava beach has been closed.
The boat had 2,500 liters of fuel in the warehouse. Civil Protection has activated the emergency plan for marine water pollution (CAMCat). The Firefighters’ Underwater GRAE has submerged until the leak is plugged.
Barriers to absorb fuel
Maritime Rescue will move two ‘ecosorb’ barriers this Friday from its base in Castellón de la Plana (Castellón) to Roses (Girona) to help absorb fuel stain of 25 by 50 meters that caused the collapse.
The great absorption capacity, quick connection and light weight make these barriers ideal for a multitude of cases in which polluting spills of different sizes occur, either to absorb or retain.
The fishing boat, made of wood and about 34 meters long, was manufactured in Alicante in 1972 and was later sold to the Roses shipowner who made several modifications to it.
For unknown reasons, the ship has hit something and a large leak has opened, causing it to sink quickly. The stern has remained on a sandy bottom about 18 meters deep and the bow at 13 meters.
The 1,500 liters of fuel that was still inside have begun to rise to the surface. With the help of boats from the Maritime Unit of the Mossos, the maritime group of the Rural Agents and the SerMar of the Civil Guard, 75 meters of barriers have been installed so that the stain did not reach the Almadraba beach.
When the wind turned south, they closed the beach due to the possibility of the spill arriving, but around 2:00 p.m., the divers from the Generalitat Fire Department made a dive and managed to plug the fuel outlet.
Palamós Maritime Captaincy has decreed a temporary exclusion zone between the tip of l’Ullastrell and the tip of Almadraba through which no type of vessel will be able to pass while the emergency services are working.
In addition, they have requested a report from the fishing vessel’s skipper on how the events that led to the sinking of the trawler occurred and have urged the shipowner to take the appropriate measures to refloat it.
