Sailors call for help after several shark attacks damage the

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Three people were rescued from the Coral Sea near Australia after shark attacks damaged both hull of their inflatable catamaran.

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Under the cover of night Wednesday, maritime authorities in Australia

rescued a sailing party after several shark attacks damaged their sinking

catamaran drifting in the Coral Sea, officials said. An alert from a radio beacon led rescue crews to a 29-foot inflatable catamaran about 1:30 a.m. local time after someone on board the vessel sent a distress signal out, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority

reported.

The vessel, named Tion, departed from Vanuatu in the South Pacific and was en route to Cairns in Queensland, Australia when contact was established, maritime officials wrote in a release. The Coral Sea, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, extends east of Australia and New Guinea and south of the Solomon Islands.

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