Marinakis-managed tanker rescues migrants off Greece

Capital Ship Management’s Aframax tanker Aristofanis alerted the Hellenic (Greek) Coast Guard after encountering the vessel, which was reportedly taking on water 70 nautical miles southwest of the Messinian island of Schiza in the prefecture of Messinia, in Greece’s Peloponnese region.

The coast guard said it attended the scene and began a search and rescue operation, dispatching a patrol boat, Navy helicopter and an Air Force helicopter to aid in the search operation for a woman reported by one of Aristofanis’ crew to have been seen falling from the wooden ship into the sea as the boat’s passengers were being transferred on board Aristofanis.

The search was co-ordinated by the Joint Search and Rescue Centre at the Hellenic Coast Guard Headquarters, and in its initial report, the coast guard said the search had been unsuccessful but was ongoing.