Three members of a 15-strong crew died and the search for five missing continued early Friday morning after a Norwegian oil rig support vessel capsized off the Shetland Isles north of the Scottish mainland.
The Bourbon Dolphin capsized about 75 nautical miles (139 kilometres) west of the north Shetlands near the Transocean Rather oil platform at about 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) on Thursday, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
Ten have been rescued, but the Shetland Coastguard confirmed three of those had died Thursday night. The remaining seven were airlifted to a hospital in the Shetlands.
All of the ship's crew are Norwegian nationals.
Though the search for the remaining five continued, the coastguard said it was standing down rescue helicopters, which would resume at first light.
"Shetland Coastguard have now stood down the rescue helicopters," an MCA spokesman said.
"They will resume the search for the remaining five crewmen again at first light, however the Search and Rescue operation will be changed to a Search and Recovery operation."
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