Three people on board an inflatable catamaran in the Coral Sea off the northeast coast of Australia have been rescued after the vessel was damaged from several shark attacks, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said on Wednesday.
Satellite photos and a video on the AMSA website showed a large part of the stern of the yacht torn away.
Rescue crews responded to an emergency positioning beacon registered to the Tion, a nine-metre inflatable catamaran on a round-the-world expedition, early on Wednesday morning. The yacht was located about 835 kms southeast of Cairns in the Coral Sea. The three passengers - two Russian and one French citizen - are due to arrive in Brisbane on Thursday, AMSA said.
This was not the first accident on the voyage, Kosikhina said, with the steering device of a previous vessel failing during a previous leg from Chile to Easter Island.
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