http://www.iwradio.co.uk/articles/tw...g-vessel-sinks
Heard this rescue on Channel 16 - we had been in the same area (near the Submarine Barrier off Portsmouth) about an hour previously in a Force 6. Coastguard, RNLI and independent lifeboats did an awesome job (and the bloke on the fishing boat was commendably calm, when his boat was sinking faster than I've ever heard of a boat going down in the Solent). One of the Portsmouth lifeboat crew had gone onto Sea Bird to assist and, I gathered, the boat sank underneath him, and he had to be picked out of the water himself by the Gosport lifeboat.
It was really comforting to know just how good our rescue services are.
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