Good News
Loaded VLCC encountered 40 refugees in a small boat off Mauretania showing distress signals. Called Las Palmas rescue centre who advised that if the Captain thought the vessel was in distress, he should embark them and they could be landed in Las Palmas or Morocco. Took them on board, fed & watered and handed them over to a Moroccan gunboat two days later. Las Palmas and Moroccan authorities ‘extremely co-operative’.
