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At 9:08 p.m. on Saturday night, Kystradio Nord received a message from Mayday mentioning that a ship was sinking and mentioning the name of the place Ballstad.
The Det Norske Veritas lifeboat and the Sea King rescue helicopter from Bodø were used in the search.
– The coastal radio has not been able to contact the injured, and we have not heard from them in the time that has passed. In many ways we can say that this is like finding the needle in the haystack. So we just have to start looking in the dark, rescue leader Frode Iversen at the North Norway Main Rescue Center tells NRK.
At 10:45 p.m. the search for possible missing persons was completed. No findings have been made and HRS now denies that it was a fake message.
Iversen says they treat every emergency message like a real emergency signal until they have good reason to believe otherwise.
Frode Iversen is an on-call rescue manager at HRS Main Rescue Center in Northern Norway.
Photo: Martin Steinholt / NRK
– If now there is someone who is sitting and has a bad conscience in this context, it is very good to receive a message about it, then at least we can stop the effort, Iversen tells NRK at 22.30.
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According to HRS, there is relatively little traffic in the area.
To NRK at 10.30pm, Iversen says they have not contacted the ship that sent the emergency message.
– We don’t know anything, but this message arrived on 08.21. We do not know if it is a ship or what ship it can be. They couldn’t come up with any kind of identification.
– We go down, we go down, mayday, mayday, was the ship’s message, says rescue leader Mariell Bakklund at the Main Rescue Center to VG.
