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Lost Fishing Vessel Wreck Located

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

February 3, 2015

The missing Belgian fishing vessel, which lost communications in the channel Wednesday, January 28, was located today by a survey vessel, the U.K. Coastguard and Maritime Agency (MCA) reported.
 
The Dutch authorities have sent to the fishing vessel wreck location a Royal Netherlands Navy warship, HNLMS  Luymes, expected to arrive on scene tomorrow morning.
 
On board the warship is a diving team and a Dutch police officer, which is standard procedure for missing people, MCA said. Also on board are two officers from the Belgian shipping inspection, which is in charge of the investigation.

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