COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Eight Danes were rescued on Wednesday after their sailboat capsized in the Pacific Ocean following a collision with a whale, the Danish Armed Forces said in a statement.
After abandoning the sailboat, the crew took refuge on a raft and called for help via a satellite phone, triggering a search and rescue mission by the Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.
They were later found by a fishing vessel and eventually transferred to a container ship which is now headed for Tahiti, the Danish Armed Forces said.
(This story has been corrected to remove reference to Maersk as the owner of the container ship in paragraph 3)
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
