RESCUE OF ISRAELIS
Russian Ship Avoids Port
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HAIFA (Israel), Sept. 2.
A Soviet freighter made a 24-hour detour to avoid dropping off five castaway Israeli sailors in a hostile Arab port. The five, who returned to Israel yesterday, said they were sailing a yacht off Turkey on Friday when “a huge fish, apparently a whale,” shattered their vessel with its tail.
Mr Raf Lirav, aged 28, skipper of the yacht, inflated a rubber dinghy, and the five, including one woman, floated for 12 hours before being picked up by the 90-ton Soviet freighter Kremenetz. Lirav said the captain Informed him he was sailing to Latakai, in Syria, whereupon the five asked to be let off the ship with their dinghy. The captain, who was not named, then ordered the ship to sail to Limassol, in Cyprus, causing a 24-hour delay in its schedule. “They treated us wonderfully,” said Mr Lirav, a maritime rescue instructor at an Israeli nautical school.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 15
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