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Views: Visits 57 Personnel of the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT Lagos, on Sunday, rescued twelve drowning passengers of an outward engine boat which capsized along Takwa Bay area of Lagos. It was gathered that the incident was caused by waves from another boat transiting the same area at about 8:10 pm. The passengers of the ill-fated boat shouted for help to no avail until personnel of the NNS Beecroft who were at the vicinity on routine patrol were alerted. The Western Naval Command Information Officer, Commander Thomas Otuji, in a statement, said: “The personnel were deployed to the scene for search and rescue operations. All passengers onboard the ill-fated boat were rescued alive and conveyed to the Naval Medical Centre, Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island Lagos, for immediate medical care. ....
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Share Twelve occupants of a passenger boat that capsized in the Tarkwa Bay area of Lagos were on Sunday rescued by men of the Nigerian Navy. The information officer of the Western Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy Thomas Otuji confirmed the rescue in a press statement he signed and made available to journalists on Monday. The Navy spokesperson said “men of Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT attached to the newly established Forward Operations Base TARKWA BAY and Nigerian Navy Boat Service (SBS) personnel averted what could have been a Black Sunday for passengers of an Outboard Engines Boat along the Tarkwa Bay axis when their boat capsized. ....
By Chiemelie Ezeobi Disaster was averted at the Tarkwa Bay area of Lagos after naval operatives attached to the newly established Forward Operations Base (FOB) rescued all 12 passengers of a capsized commercial boat. The outboard-engine boat had capsized when a heavy wave by another transiting boat filled its flanks. Fortunately, operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT attached to the FOB as well as personnel of the navy’s Special Boat Services (SBS), who were on routine patrol, chanced on them and rescued the passengers. Confirming the rescue, the Information Officer, Western Naval Command, Commander Thomas Otuji, said the passengers were immediately ferried to the Naval Medical Centre, Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos, for medical care. ....