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Lifeboat saved yacht crew in Kiel Bight

Tne British flagged 12-m-sailing yacht 'Inis' (MMSI: 232040682) of the Santiano violinist Pete Sage sank in the afternoon of March 24, 2023, in the Kiel bight off Schönberg. The alerted emergency services were able to save two people from a small dinghy. The sailing yacht could not be saved, the first sailing tour of the year from Neustadt to Kiel ended on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Shortly after the alarm was raised at around 4:30 p.m., an SAR operation started with the "Berlin" bein deployed from Laboe, the pilot boat “Stein”, the customs boat “Schleswig-Holstein” and the police boat “Duburg”. The lifeboat cew then found a small dinghy of the sailing yacht with two people floating in the water. Both people were rescued and brought to Laboe aboard the 'Berlin'. How the accident could have happened in the relatively good weather was still unclear. Reports with photos: https://www.seenotretter.de/aktuelles/seenotfaelle/segelyacht-gesunken-seenotretter-retten-schiffbruechige-aus-kieler-bucht https://www.seenotretter.de/aktuelles/seenotfaelle/seenotretter-retten-pete-sage-von-santiano-nach-untergang-seiner-yacht