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23/11/2007
Yorkshire Sea Tragedy Claims Two Lives
A private cabin cruiser has capsized in heavy seas off the North Yorkshire coast today, killing two people.
Two men and a woman are understood to have been in the boat when it got into difficulties after leaving Whitby Harbour this morning (Friday).
All three were eventually taken to hospital but one of the men and the woman have since died, a North Yorkshire Police spokesman confirmed.
The other man is bad too and thought to be in a life-threatening condition.
A coastguard spokesman said: "We were alerted to the cabin cruiser at 12.15pm.
"It appears to have left Whitby Harbour and got into difficulties about 100 yards from the sea wall."
The spokesman said that at one point, people in the harbour who had called the coastguard had been unable to see the victims in the water because of the swell of the sea.
"The swell was around 20 to 30ft high," he said.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service said members of staff were at the scene off Pier Road, Whitby to take the injured to the nearest hospital.
(BMcC)
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