Fisherman has bath before calling coastguard

The skipper of a small fishing boat which sank off the Northern Ireland coast calmly swam ashore - then had a good hot bath before calling the emergency services and telling them what had happened, it emerged today.

The 61-year-old spend an hour swimming and drifting ashore in the chilly waters after his vessel sank beneath him in Dundrum Bay off the Co Down coast yesterday afternoon, said coastguards.