A tug from a Cork-based salvage company has spent a week at sea on a mission to tow a stricken cargo ship to safety here — from over a third of the way to Canada, as the Irish Examiner reports.
Atlantic Towage and Marine sent its recovery tug Ocean Challenger to assist the Onego Rio, a Dutch-flagged cargo ship which had left Panama City earlier this month bound for Fife in Scotland but lost engine power some 600 miles south-west of Ireland just over a week ago, on Friday 16 August.
The 5,000HP Ocean Challenger was launched on its long-range mission on the same day — and took nearly three days to reach the crippled cargo ship, such was its distance into the Atlantic.
The Irish Examiner has much more on the story HERE.
