Off Spain’s northern coast, three crew members were rescued from the Galician fishing vessel Corvo after it caught fire and later sank northeast of Estaca de Bares. The men were first recovered by another fishing vessel and then airlifted by helicopter, with no injuries reported.
According to Spanish media reports, on 26.08.2026 the fishing vessel Corvo, operated by a Galician company based in Muxía, caught fire about eight nautical miles northeast of Estaca de Bares in Galicia. The maritime rescue coordination center in Fisterra received the distress alert around 22:00 local time and immediately deployed rescue assets to the scene. The fire rapidly engulfed the vessel, and by around 06:00 the Corvo had sunk, but all three crew members had already abandoned ship to life rafts.
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