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| A crew has been winched to safety by helicopter after a ship hit rocks off the coast of Anglesey. | |
| Holyhead Coastguard said all six crew are safe after abandoning the 105-tonne vessel off Skerries Rocks. | |
| Initially the crew were lifted off the Smit Cymyran onto rocks before airlifted to a nearby coastguard station. | |
| A lifeboat is close by to monitor for pollution as the area to important for seabirds and there's a seal colony. | |
| The vessel is now said to be filling rapidly with water. Salvage pumps are being airlifted from RAF Valley to try to save it from sinking. | |
| Jim Paton, area watch manager for Holyhead Coastguard, said they received an emergency call from the Smit Cymyran - a training and survey vessel - around 1115 BST. | |
| The crew said she had struck the rocks and they were abandoning ship. | |
| An all-weather lifeboat and a rescue helicopter from RAF Valley on Anglesey, were immediately sent to the Skerries, about two miles off Carmel Head and the scene of many shipwrecks in the past. | |
| Flooding rapidly | |
| Mr Paton said the crew were in "extreme danger" . | |
| "The vessel was flooding rapidly and had developed a list of 30 degrees and was taking on a lot of water," he said. | |
| He said they believed the oil tanks on the vessel had not been damaged, but a pollution team from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency were monitoring the situation. |