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Fishing vessel nets plane wreckage Floris Steenkamp Crew of the hake trawler, Ambrose Bay, of Merlus Fishing were left speechless earlier this week when they pulled the entire fuselage of a light aeroplane out of the water in their fish trawl net. The grim discovery was made on Monday afternoon, 220 nautical miles northwest of Walvis Bay, 80 kilometres west of Torra Bay, in a water depth of 748 metres. Ambrose Bay had to abandon all hake fishing operations, as the fuselage badly torn the net, whilst the one wing of the wreck broke loose causing the fuselage to sink into its watery grave again. The fishing vessel arrived in Walvis Bay late on Tuesday where the Namibian Police in the meantime took possession of the one wing of the plane that re-
mained in the net after it came off the fuselage. The wing is white in colour with a distinct orange stripe on the wing tip. An investigation will now be launched to determine the origin of the aircraft.“It was truly a hectic moment. The one moment you are trawling and next the net gets stuck on the ocean floor. I first thought it to be a rock or piece of sunken line, which sort of occurs frequently, but I could hardly believe my eyes when the one wing appeared on the water surface as we
pulled in the net slowly,” skipper Bennie Bredenhann explained. Adding the water had a three meters swell and that caused the one wing caught in the net to come off and the remainder of the fuselage returning to the seabed. Along it took with it back to the ocean floor the secrets of what plane it could be and how many people might have been sent to their watery deaths along with the plane. Bredenhann explained the exact spot where two military planes,
In an unprecedented move in Namibia's law history, a total of twelve fishing companies indicated this week it has combined forces and are now launching an urgent application in the Labour Court of Namibia to seek an interdict against four trade unions, their representatives as well as hundreds of fishermen currently on an illegal strike. The interdict is sought to compel the union, its leaders and the hundreds of striking fishermen, both in Walvis Bay and Lüderitz to cease all activities that disrupt fishing operations as well as to stop with
immediate effect the intimidation, harassment and assault on colleagues that are unsympathetic to the illegal strike. In a notice this week the companies Hangana Seafood, O v e r b e rg F i s h i n g ,
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