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Salvage Operation of Abandoned Foreign Fishing Vessel Underway

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In August 2019 Angola’s formally ratified a Multilateral Search and Rescue Agreement with South Africa. This brought into fruition a 12 years old effort to establish formal cooperation on sea search and rescue operations in Southern Africa among six countries considered vital to the success of the operations in the sub region.

Abandoned and wrecked vessels are an environmental and administrative headache for any country’s maritime search, rescue and salvage authorities. Such is the case of the  FV De Fu No. 2 which had been adrift at sea off South Africa since September 2025.

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