French rescue teams mobilised on Friday after a boat with six people on board experienced engine failure northwest of Saint Lucia and went adrift.
According to the Force Armée Aux Antilles Facebook page, the French Navy frigate Germinal went to the rescue on Friday afternoon during difficult weather conditions.
A Panther helicopter took off to locate the boat, which had earlier transmitted a distress signal.
The Panther lowered a diver onto the adrift boat, and eventually, the helicopter airlifted the six passengers and safely transferred them to the French Navy vessel.
The vessel then transported them to the Martinique Capital, Fort de France, according to the Force Armée Aux Antilles Facebook page, which provided no additional details.
Any third-party or user posts, comments, replies, and third-party entries published on the St. Lucia Times website (https://stluciatimes.com) in no way convey the thoughts, sentiments or intents of St. Lucia Times, the author of any said article or post, the website, or the business. St. Lucia Times is not responsible or liable for, and does not endorse, any comments or replies posted by users and third parties, and especially the content therein and whether it is accurate.
St. Lucia Times reserves the right to remove, screen, edit, or reinstate content posted by third parties on this website or any other online platform owned by St. Lucia Times (this includes the said user posts, comments, replies, and third-party entries) at our sole discretion for any reason or no reason, and without notice to you, or any user. For example, we may remove a comment or reply if we believe it violates any part of the St. Lucia Criminal Code, particularly section 313 which pertains to the offence of Libel. Except as required by law, we have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of any content you as a user may post, or any other post or reply made by any third-party on this website or any other online platform owned by St. Lucia Times. All third-parties and users agree that this is a public forum, and we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any content you as a user may post, or any other post or reply made by any third-party on this website. Any posts made and information disclosed by you is at your own risk.
Bad Boys real Navy seal type of ting tell lucian coast guard do that uh
Lùcian coast garde is when you drown they quick or 48 hours missing .calling them they Nevers on time or they keep on asking question until thé boat sink
LUCIA DONT HAVE NOTHING ONLY RUM, RUM , AND RUM.
This is the efficiency that we need in Saint Lucia, particularly, for our Bonafide fishers.
Not the existing tracking device that does not allow one to send a distress signal when in difficulty. Successive governments look at the initial cost of investing such a system but not the future benefits in terms of lives that can be saved.
Martinique has had an efficiently working system for decades yet we refuse to learn from their example. We are always twinning and engaging in bilateral agreements with Martinique, most of which are one sided.
Let us change this around and engage Martinique authorities to provide the necessary technical and financial support to implement such a system.
Let us stop the lip service to our Fishers and show the commitment to a sector that takes so much risk each and everyday when they go out to sea.