Mumbai: A fishing trawler, which sank off the Mumbai Coast early on Sunday after being hit by a Chinese vessel, was subsequently rescued, without any casualties. The vessel belonged to a Madh Koliwada resident, Hemdeep Harishchandra Tipri.
About The Case
The Chinese cargo vessel, Zhu Cheng Xin Zhou, had left Nhava Sheva on Saturday evening for Mundra Port when the collision occurred off the Versova coast in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. According to the information shared by the Maharashtra Coastal Police, the cargo vessel struck the fishing trawler, Tisai – from Madh Koliwada, Malad – off the Versova coast in Mumbai around midnight. Fishing vessels in the vicinity rushed to the rescue of the trawler on getting its distress call.
The rescue team managed to salvage the sinking trawler and tow it back to Madh Koliwada. “Eight fishing boats of the Savti Group rescued the drowning crew of the fishing trawler Tisai and managed to salvage and tow the sinking vessel back to Talpasa port at Madh. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the collision,” said the general secretary of Maharashtra Macchimar Kruti Samiti, Kiran Koli.
The MMKS is the apex body of all the Koli fishermen in the state. Earlier this month, a speeding naval craft carrying out a test drive, hit a passenger ferry – taking tourists from the Gateway of India to Elephanta Caves – killing 15, including a naval rating and two engineering executives.
