U.S. Coast Guard rescues injured sailors
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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two seriously injured British crew members from an Australian yacht taking part in a round-the-world race on Sunday (April 01) after it was hit by a huge wave in the Pacific.
Four of 13 crew members, three of them Britons and the other an Australian, were hurt when the wave hit the Geraldton Western Australia on Saturday (March 31) about 400 nautical miles off the Californian coast.
The wave disabled the yacht's main steering and some of its communications equipment, Coast Guard and race officials said.
It was one of 10 boats competing in the Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race that started in Britain.
It had been sailing to San Francisco from China and was still about two hundred miles from its San Francisco Bay destination, using emergency steering, on Sunday evening, but was expected to reach port within a day, race organisers said.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two seriously injured British crew members from an Australian yacht taking part in a round-the-world race on Sunday (April 01) after it was hit by a huge wave in the Pacific.
Four of 13 crew members, three of them Britons and the other an Australian, were hurt when the wave hit the Geraldton Western Australia on Saturday (March 31) about 400 nautical miles off the Californian coast.
The wave disabled the yacht's main steering and some of its communications equipment, Coast Guard and race officials said.
It was one of 10 boats competing in the Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race that started in Britain.
It had been sailing to San Francisco from China and was still about two hundred miles from its San Francisco Bay destination, using emergency steering, on Sunday evening, but was expected to reach port within a day, race organisers said.