# Fishing vessel Geo Searcher sinks

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**Category:** Marine Incidents\
**Created:** [October 20, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fishing-vessel-geo-searcher-sinks/57167 "2020-10-20T11:38:40Z")\
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A fishing vessel belonging to a Cape Town fishing company had a fishing license from Tristan da Cunha. She also served as the only vessel bringing supplies and pax to Tristan da Cunha.

She was on an expedition to catch Rock Lobster when she hit a rock off Gough Island and sunk:

> **[Tristan da Cunha MFV Geo Searcher News](https://www.tristandc.com/shipsgeosearcher.php)**
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> The MFV Geo-Searcher replaced the MFV Edinburgh as Tristan's main fishing vessel in 2017, but was wrecked of Gough in October 2020.

All 62 people on board were saved. They will be picked up and brought back to Cape Town by the SA Research Vessel Agulhas II:

> **[Research vessel dispatched to rescue shipwrecked seamen on Gough Island – IHS...](https://safetyatsea.net/news/2020/research-vessel-dispatched-to-rescue-shipwrecked-seamen-on-gough-island/?utm_campaign=CL_SAS_Newswire1_20201020_MPC%20Code_e-production_E-78197_TF_1020_0400&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua)**

PS\> She is the former Norwegian Seismic vessel Polar King / Geo Searcher. Converted in Gdansk, Poland in 2016:

> **[M/S Polar King - Sjøhistorie](https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/724291/)**