{"id":3412,"date":"2010-07-23T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2010\/07\/23\/mumbles-lifeboat-rescues-trawler-from-mussel-haul\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T09:41:00","slug":"mumbles-lifeboat-rescues-trawler-from-mussel-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/mumbles-lifeboat-rescues-trawler-from-mussel-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbles lifeboat rescues trawler from mussel haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vessel had been struggling to make headway against the tide due to the weight in its nets.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Williams, from the Mumbles lifeboat crew, said the vessel was towed into Swansea Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the tide dropped it was found to be a mass of mussel shells which was causing extraordinary drag,&#8221; Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>The trawler with one person on board was rescued in the Bristol Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was put onboard the trawler to help the skipper with towing into the safety of Knab Rock Mumbles, in Swansea Bay.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;We took the trawler to the safe area at Knab Rock Mumbles for the skipper to inspect his nets and remove whatever it was holding him back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>[Source: BBC]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mass of mussel shells caught in a UK trawler\u2019s nets forced the crew to call for help after the weight of it caught difficulty in manoeuvring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}