Dramatic aerial images have captured a fishing vessel slowly sinking beneath the waves after running aground near a notoriously dangerous part of the North Sea - prompting a heroic early morning rescue by the coastguard. Ocean Maid BA55 capsized on Monday morning off the Scottish shores of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Four crew members on board were able to get to safety using a life raft and life boat- escaping the keeling ship in the nick of time. Fraserburgh Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) responded to the distress call at 5.56am on Monday and was able to guide the crew to safety. The vessel had not long begun its journey when it ran into trouble, coasting into a 'notorious black spot' by Cairnbulg Beacon, which has reportedly claimed countless other ships in previous years.
Ocean Maid BA55 capsized on Monday morning after it ran aground off the shore of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire
Pictured: The RNLI crew who were dispatched to rescue the ship's crewmates.
They saved all four crew onboard
The Ocean Maid now sits just metres away from the Sovereign BF380, which was shipwrecked in 2005 after crashing into Cairnbulg rocks. Aerial footage of Ocean Maid shows the empty ship capsizing next to a buoy, giving it an eerie appearance as though falling into an ocean void. RNLI Fraserburgh Lifeboat has since detailed how the rescue was completed. In a Facebook post, they wrote: 'Fraserburgh RNLI were requested to launch by HM Coastguard this morning and responded at 5.56am to a fishing boat that had run aground beside Cairnbulg Beacon. 'The boat's crew of four took to a life raft and were then picked up by the lifeboat who brought them ashore. 'The boat went aground at a notorious black spot which has seen many ships wrecked over the years and just yards from where another boat, the Sovereign, went aground in 2005.'
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