Watch: Boat with Pakistani crew rescued in Beira had been sighted in northern Mozambique

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Watch: Boat with Pakistani crew rescued in Beira had been sighted in northern Mozambique

4:40 CAT | 19 May 2020

Photo: Miramar

The boat rescued while adrift on high seas off the port of Beira ( central Mozambique) and carrying 10 Pakistanis was seen on three occasions, in clear contradiction to what the crew had initially declared.

Peter Guerson, captain of one of the industrial fishing vessels operating out of the Port of Beira, said he saw the Pakistani vessel off northern Mozambique from April 7 to 9, approaching the coast at night and withdrawing in the morning back into the high seas, for three consecutive days.

Guerson says that he and his crew were reluctant to approach the vessel, which had failed to respond to radio communication, which had no name and was, moreover, flying no flag, he recalled.

But, arriving back in Beira and seeing the Pakistani boat anchored in the fishing port there, Guerson was surprised to hear that the crew claimed to have been adrift for two months as the result of a breakdown.

Peter Guerson reported to SERNIC, presenting photographs of the Pakistani vessel manoeuvring on the high seas 400 meters from where Peter and his crew were fishing.

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