[1/5] Vincent Thomas Etienne, Evgeny Kovalevsky and Stanislav Berezkin, the three people rescued after sharks attacked a yacht off the Australian coast, pose for a photo in Vanua Levu Island, Fiji July 31, 2023.
Satellite photos and a video on the AMSA website showed a large part of the stern of the yacht torn away.
Rescue crews responded to an emergency positioning beacon registered to the Tion, a nine-metre inflatable catamaran on a round-the-world expedition, early on Wednesday morning.
"The only thing is that the balloons of the inflatable catamaran were blown away."
The crew continued the expedition on an inflatable catamaran by the same manufacturer that had been stored on the island for several years.
Persons:
Vincent Thomas Etienne, Evgeny Kovalevsky, Stanislav Berezkin, AMSA, Anna Kosikhina, Kosikhina, Renju Jose, Wang Jiawei, Mahezabin Sayed, Alasdair Pal, Michael Perry
Organizations:
REUTERS, Rights, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Thomson
Locations:
Vanua Levu, Fiji, Australia, Vanuatu, Cairns, Panama, Brisbane, Russia, Siberia, Chile, Easter, Sydney