It was at 1 pm on Friday that a boat with seven people on board – a Swedish family with two children, two more Swedes and a fishing guide – capsized in Nappstraumen in Norwegian Lofoten.
A girl was missing after the accident. During Friday and Saturday, a large search effort has been looking for her, including planes and several vessels participating in the work. Even from land, police and volunteers have tried to find the girl.
But at 4 pm on Saturday, it was announced that the rescue effort itself has been completed. The work instead shifts to searching for a presumed deceased person.
Now it's the police who take over the responsibility for the search, says rescue leader Linda Hansen to TT.
Of the other six people, a father and a child are said to have been taken to hospital while the others are reported to be unharmed. The situation is said to be stable for the two who were taken to hospital, reports VG.
36-year-old man died
After the accident on Friday, a rescue effort was quickly in place.
A very upset Grete Herlofson, secretary general of the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society, told a press conference on Saturday that a sea rescuer, a 36-year-old man, died in connection with a dive after the missing girl.
Yesterday, what we fear the most happened. We lost a colleague, she says.
How the fatal accident occurred and what happened underwater is unclear.
He died when he did the most important thing a sea rescuer can do, trying to save a life, says Herlofson.
Gorm Hillgaar at Redningsselskapet, says that it took 15 minutes from the time the sea rescuer jumped into the water until he was hoisted up lifeless to a rescue helicopter. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was initiated, but his life could not be saved.
The wheelhouse is missing
The boat that capsized has now been towed to the harbor. The wheelhouse on the boat is completely missing. Apart from that, there are no visible damages to the engines or the hull, writes Lofotposten.
Henrik Heitmann, who was in the area, tells Expressen that he witnessed the accident from his window at 1 pm.
I saw how the boat was upside down. There were strong winds and waves. We saw how people were sitting on top of the overturned boat. One person was missing and we were told that she was under the boat. Then the boat was pulled towards land, he says.
