Full moon rising off South Coast mistaken for ship explosion and fire

Multiple eyewitness reports were received by NSRI duty controllers of a ship appearing to have exploded and ablaze deep sea off-shore of the South Coast coastline on Sunday, July 5.

NSRI coast watchers and shore crew were able to get visuals of what the eye-witnesses were reporting and it was confirmed that the full moon rising over the horizon had given the impression of an explosion and a fire at sea. The fellow fishing commercial boat had taken four of the nine crew off the casualty commercial fishing boat and was accompanying the casualty boat that was motoring under only one motor and limping towards Port Edward with five crew remaining onboard.

“The casualty boat, with her reduced crew on board, was able to limp to the backline off-shore of Port Edward where our sea rescue craft Sea Ranger 3 met up with them and in two relays, two casualty crew at a time were taken off the casualty boat and brought to shore through the two to 2.5-metre breaking swells,” said NSRI Port Edward duty coxswain, John Nicholas.

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