Man dies after Scottish Trawler capsizes off Norway

One man died and seven crew members were rescued after a fishing trawler got into difficulty and capsized in the North Sea, on Sunday.

The crew were found by rescuers on the keel of the boat, 100 miles west of Stavanger, Norway.

The Scottish trawler, Njord, reportedly left Peterhead on Saturday afternoon.

According to the BBC, the Norwegian Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) said three crew members who had ingested diesel were airlifted to hospital, where one later died.

The other five were picked up by the Olympic Challenger, an offshore vessel that was five nautical miles away when it received the distress call.

Ståle Jamtli, from the JRCC, told BBC Scotland: “They were there, I guess, after 20-something minutes. When they arrived at the wreck, they saw some people sitting on the keel of the vessel – the vessel had capsized and two people, I think, were in the water.

“Five of them were picked up by a nearby vessel that came to aid. The three people that were hoisted into the helicopter, they were brought to hospital in Bergen. They all had swallowed some diesel oil. The five other guys were then picked up by another helicopter and sent ashore, but they were in fairly good shape.”

Details have not yet been released about the dead man and the other crew members.

The incident in now under investigation by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).