PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - A coast guard vessel towed a Russian fishing trawler in distress to a nearest port in the Bering Sea, a coast guard spokesman said on Saturday.
"The vessel in distress was taken to the port of Ossora on the northeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula early on Saturday," Andrei Orlov said.
On Thursday night the Fortuna trawler with 16 crewmembers sent a distress call saying it had lost power due to a fuel system malfunction and was drifting in the Karaginsky Gulf about 142 kilometers [88 miles] off the coast.
The crew failed to repair the fuel system and restart the engine. The malfunction was presumably caused by water in fuel.
