CGC Eagle's distance cousin. Below is translated using Babel Fish.
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MISSING “GORCH FOCK” - CADET
“A hand for the ship, a hand for itself”
Of Hasnain Kazim

Misfortune on the “Gorch Fock”: A young Offiziersanwärterin went during night trip under full sails over board. Why, is a mystery. The probability to find the cadet living sinks once per hour - however the rescuers did not give hopes up yet.
Hamburg - teachers had the 107 cadets to the service start on board the “Gorch Fock” still another advice given which, of which the young soldiers may always think with their work on board: “A hand for the ship, a hand for itself.” One is always also of own security to thus think, is this principle to mean.
Nevertheless in the night to Thursday a young Offiziersanwärterin had an accident: The 18-yr old from North Rhine-Westphalia fell shortly before midnight during trip under full sails into the water. “We cannot say at this time yet, like it to it came”, say a naval speaker Spiegel online. The ship lay “calmly and stably” in the water. It stands firmly that the woman fell not from a mast, but from the upper deck in the water. “There is no witness, who saw the case in the water”, says he, “however a soldier has a shade noticed and the correct conclusions pulled, i.e. that someone went there over board.”
The sergeant of the guard officer let the sergeants of the guard group immediately count over - a woman was missing. It blew a wind of the strength seven, a “rigid wind”, like it sailors says, with a speed of approximately 60 kilometers per hour. The waves in the North Sea, about twelve nautical miles (20 kilometers) northern the island Norderney, were about two meters high - much compared with what takes place occasionally in the German bay. But it was stick dark, neither the “Gorch Fock” nor their two grey motorized life boats has search headlights.
The officer instructed a “man over board” - maneuver: As the first a life buoy was thrown to about one and a half meters long cap, which unfolded in the water to a swimming tent in the water, a white. If the person is not ohnmächtig in the water or turns out into a suction, it has good chances to swim to this island to in-climb and for rescue wait. In addition the regular crew of the “Gorch Fock” practices “man over board” - the maneuver regularly, each naval soldier in a natatorium in holsteinischen new city climbing into the life raft learned, before it drives for the first time on a naval ship to sea.
Was the woman overtired for the end of their sail guard?
The commander of the “Gorch Fock”, Norbert treasure, was informed immediately, the entire crew was waked. On-duty sail guard, to which also the disappeared soldier belonged, stopped the ship. After about a kilometer long braking distance the “Gorch Fock” stood, which marked liferaft the place, in which the absence of the woman was noticed. The ship turned, which drove life rafts in the wake of the “Gorch Fock” toward life raft, but the woman did not become discovered.
The crew called assistance by radio, ships of the Federal Police and the German society for the rescue of shipwrecked ones was rapid to the place. Helicopters of the German Federal Armed Forces and the police of Lower Saxony and naval aircrafts, so-called sea-long-range reconnaissance aircraft, looked for the area off so far unsuccessfully.
The soldier was divided into the 30-köpfige sail guard from 20 to 24 o'clock. The crew members do not carry life jackets during their guard - this would be hinderlich with the work on board, particularly when climbing in the masts. Straight one with the “Aufentern” is valid the principle for climbing despite all hurry carefully and with safe grasp. Different a protection is not possible on board the “Gorch Fock”, however for technical reasons. Only with reaching the working position on the rigging the cadets secure themselves with a life belt, at which a snap hook is attached.
In the navy one puzzles now whether the woman is tripped or bent themselves the negligently too far over railing. Was it overtired for the end of their sail guard? “We will clear up, say the causes of accident” the naval speaker.
“The crew must find only once to the peace”
In addition is not the “Gorch Fock” now, as abstatten intended, Hamburg a visit, but into the naval base to Wilhelmshaven to drive for the time being. Whether the 148. Foreign training journey - the further goals Dublin, Lisbon, Cadiz and Cherbourg are planned, before the “Gorch Fock” is to fasten on 12 December again in the home port Kiel - is continued, is still open. “The trip will very probably take place however”, is called it at the navy. “The crew must find only once to the peace, it to the crew members also psychological assistance is offered.”
And which, if someone did not like to ride along any longer?
“We force nobody”, say the speaker.
In the 50-year history of the “Gorch Fock” so far scarcely 14,000 beginning officers and NCOs were trained. In this time there were five deadly accidents. 2002 died a 19-yr old after a fall from the Takelage. 1998 fell a 19-yr old from the Großmast from twelve meters height on the planks. The cadet succumbed to his injuries in a Swedish hospital a little later, to which he was flown by helicopters. Only past week a young sailor fell in Port Kiel, when it slipped in the lower part of the mast. The 18-yr old was easily injured thereby. It is according to data of the navy board of the “Gorch Fock”.
Still the naval people did not give hopes up to save the young woman living from the water. With 17 degrees water temperature gives it still to chances. Sink once per hour the probability of a success, say an experienced naval officer, but possible is it still. “A death number six”, he says in a low voice, “becomes it in 50th Anniversary year of this ship hopefully do not give.”
The navy wants to further-search, says it speakers. Also at the crack of dawn.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,576348,00.html