Fishing vessel

Fardi (L) from Syria, hugs his rescued brother Mohamed (R), between a fence in the port of Kalamata, Greece, 16 June 2023 after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Pylos. Photo: EPA-EFE/YANNIS KOLESIDIS

The coastguard claims that during these hours the boat was still on course for Italy.

An exploded sea mine caught in fishermen's net in the Bosphorus has been detonated by the efforts of the military.

"A sea mine, which was caught in the net of a fishing boat and taken to a deck in the Bosphorus, was examined by an Underwater Defense [SAS] team and destroyed at the SAS Command/Riva destruction training area," the Defense Ministry said on Twitter.

Coast guard officers questioned locals around the seaside Evia town of Eretria on Wednesday, seeking corroboration for the testimony of a witness questioned in connection with the boating death last Sunday of former PASOK MP Sifis Valirakis.

Fishermen using cast nets in the depths of the Bosphorus Strait and close to its shores on big fishing boats are threatening marine wildlife, experts have warned.

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry permits industrial fishing at 24 meters of depth offshore and in seas, but fishermen have been throwing nets from their large fishing boats close to the banks of the Bosphorus Strait.

Ebif is not alone. More than hundred other foreigners like him have found work on the country's small fishing fleet, whose owners say local youngsters are unwilling to engage in the profession.

Mostly from Egypt and Turkey, they tend to replace the local fishermen when they retire.

Body of another fisher was found on Jan. 14 days after three crew members of a Turkish fishing boat went missing in a collision in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait.

"Body of I.D., one of the missing fishers, has been recovered [from the sea]," the Office of Istanbul Governor said in a statement.

His body was recovered from some 77-meter (252 feet) depth.

A prosecutor and an investigative magistrate in the southern Greek city of Nafplio released on bail the 44-year-old French skipper of an inflatable boat that slammed into a fishing boat, killing two people and severely injuring one.

A prosecutor and an investigative magistrate in the southern Greek city of Nafplio released on bail the 44-year-old French skipper of an inflatable boat that slammed into a fishing boat, killing two people and severely injuring one.

The 44-year-old French skipper of an inflatable boat that slammed into a fishing boat, killing two people and severely injuring one, will face an examining magistrate Monday in the southern Greek city of Nafplio.

The accident occurred Friday night near the resort of Porto Heli, about 200 kilometers south of Athens.

I met Stefano Benazzo recently in the port city of Piraeus thanks to an introduction from our common friend Annika Barbarigos, secretary-general of the Association of Traditional Boats.