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Post by pieter on Dec 1, 2019 6:44:14 GMT -7
The North sea can be a dangerous place for Dutch, Belgian, French, British, Danish and German fishermen. The following story proves this. Teller ReportTwo bodies found sunk in Urk fishing cutterDivers from the Royal Netherlands Navy have found two bodies on Sunday in the wheelhouse of the Urk fishing vessel UK165. Probably those of the two persons on board, who were missing after the ship went down on Thursday. Divers from the Royal Netherlands Navy have found two bodies on Sunday in the wheelhouse of the Urk fishing vessel UK165. Probably those of the two persons on board, who were missing after the ship went down on Thursday.
The National Police Unit reported this on Sunday just before 1 p.m. |
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Post by pieter on Dec 1, 2019 6:53:08 GMT -7
This video shows the life and work on see of the Urker fishermen.The bodies of the dead fishermen arrive in UrkThe bodies of the dead fishermen are brought on land in Urk. The Urk fishing is to be known to be a very christian, strict Calvinist, Orthodox Protestant community. A lot of fishermen and fisher families prayed the last days for the safe return or burial of the 2 men.During the search operation a few days agoThe fist boat is a Dutch police boat.Urk Urk (Dutch pronunciation: [ɵrk] (About this soundlisten)) is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands.
Urk is first mentioned in historical records dating to the 10th century, when it was still an island in the Almere, a lake that would become part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less saline IJsselmeer. Later in the 20th century, seabed areas surrounding Urk were reclaimed from the sea and became the Noordoostpolder.
The mainstay of the town's economy has always been fishing, and the products of the sea coming in through Urk's harbour continue to be exported widely, although today Urk's fishing boats must travel greater distances to gather them than was required in most historical periods. Religious life has also traditionally been very important to Urk's inhabitants, with active, conservative congregations of the Dutch Reformed denominations playing key roles in the life of the community.
 The fishing harbour of Urk
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Post by pieter on Dec 1, 2019 7:12:35 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Dec 1, 2019 11:39:34 GMT -7
Pieter
Such a terrible loss for those two fisherman that life was taken from them, with this, the families loss of both loved ones, and their income.
Until the vessel is examined, it is difficult to make any type of guess as the cause{s} of sinking. Rather be it swamping by storm effect, structural failure, engine loss of power, piloting failure or what ever else. The primary is both the loss of the vessel and two of its crew.
The sea is a mother with both sensibilities, she will take life with out a node, or give life as it is in her power. We as humans are subject to our own frailities in as much as we take from the sea the food to feed our selves, and whilst doing so, sail in to what ever mouth that is before us in both calm and storm. It takes but a small mistake in judgement or simply bad luck for cause of most any sinking. This may range from overloading and taking a chance of short freeboard which in rough or heavy swells can and will cause swamping with shipping water over the deck and through any unsecured hatches. Another deadly mistake is from the wheel house with an overloaded vessel to then at speed, to cut the throttles too quick causing the stern to bow under to then take in water.
It is though how ever, two lives are lost and a valuable vessel has gone to the bottom.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Dec 1, 2019 14:22:57 GMT -7
Pieter, it is such a sad story and the pictures are so realistic!
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