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A skipper has claimed a submarine may have snagged itself on his trawler as it fished off the Outer Hebrides. Angus Macleod said he and his four crew were "extremely lucky" after his net was continually dragged in front of his 62ft boat. The Royal Navy has said there were no British or Nato submarines in the area at the time. There has been speculation in recent months that Russian subs have been operating off the Scottish coast.

Submarine 'caused' sinking of French trawler By Henry Samuel in Paris Last Updated: 2:55am BST 15/04/2008 French judges investigating the sinking of a French trawler off the English coast have officially declared it was most likely caused by a submarine - perhaps a British one. Five French trawler men drowned when the Bugaled Breizh from Brittany went down off Cornwall in January 2004. After four years of investigations, the theory that the boat was dragged down by a submarine was "the most serious", the two judges found, after ruling out the results of an earlier probe by France's Sea Accident...

TWO Irishmen who stole a fishing trawler and tried to sail 67 miles across the Irish Sea after missing their ferry home were yesterday nursing hangovers and regrets in a police cell. To their disappointment, they found they were still in Britain after sailing in the wrong direction and going around in circles. Stephen Brennan and John Mahoney prompted a big air and sea rescue after realising, too late, that they did not have a clue how to sail the 30ft boat. After twiddling the knobs on the boat’s radio, they managed to issue a mayday call, prompting a search...

Argentina 'arrests' British squid trawler Oliver Balch in Buenos Aires (Filed: 26/02/2006) Argentina has impounded a British trawler in a dramatic escalation of a dispute over squid fishing rights off the Falkland Islands, raising tensions between the two countries. The high seas "arrest" of the trawler last week follows a low-level "squid war" that has been waged amid allegations of over-fishing and infringements of sovereignty. Argentina claims that the John Cheek was illegally fishing in the Argentine economic exclusion zone last Monday. The British Embassy in Buenos Aires, however, believes that the trawler, now under Argentine coastguard control at the...

Russian authorities said Wednesday that a Russian fishing ship might have been seized by gunmen off the coast of South Korea. The ship, the Tulun, opened fire at a small vessel, in which representatives of one of the ship's owners were trying to approach the Tulun, said Alexander Ivankov, deputy head of the Russian Coast Guard division in the Pacific port of Vladivostok. The small vessel, the West Wind, received 20 bullets to its hull and had to retreat. The incident took place near the Korean port of Pusan on Monday. Ivankov described the incident citing a report that he...