{"id":5677,"date":"2013-10-30T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/10\/30\/hb-grandi-vessel-grounded\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:55:38","slug":"hb-grandi-vessel-grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/hb-grandi-vessel-grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"HB Grandi vessel grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Lundey<\/i> suffered minor damage &#8211; two of the sonar transducers were damaged and the hull was dented. The vessel is currently at Akranes awaiting parts, after being floated off after water was pumped out of the bottom tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Sigurj\u00f3nsson, the company\u2019s marine superintendent at Akranes, said that the conditions at Hofsstadavogur are difficult for vessels deploying large purse seines. <i>Lundey<\/i> had been fishing in a deep gully between the shore and the Purk islands, just off K\u00f3ngsbakki, where the water shoals rapidly on both sides. <i>Lundey<\/i>\u2019s crew were preparing for the first shot when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sigurj\u00f3nsson said that it was fortunate that the gear was still onboard when the ship grounded. He expects <i>Lundey<\/i> to be back at sea by next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 October, HB Grandi\u2019s pelagic vessel \u2018Lundey NS\u2019 grounded while fishing for herring off Hofsstadavogur in Breidafj\u00f6rdur, in the west of Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","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=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}