But there was no indication the ship was taking in water at this stage, he said, although five of the crew were on deck.

BBC: Hunt for five missing crew of sunken Swanland halts

Harvey Brown grabs each mesh pot as the winch pulls it out of the water, and methodically packs in more bait, shakes out the crabs into a box on deck, sorts the males from the females, tosses those too small to keep back into the bay and then drops the pot for its journey back to the bottom.

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Call it the Das Boot effect: With their deep keels and heavy ballast, J-boats push such a mass of water that they tend to hunker down in a breeze, submerging the bow and stern and soaking practically everyone on deck.

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