The UK Coast Guard has released footage of a dramatic airlift rescue, after an Irish fishing boat sank 48 miles off Scotland's Western Isles on Tuesday.

In the video a man is pulled by a winch from the sinking trawler to a rescue helicopter.

The fishing boat, The Luda Naofa, took on water and had began to sink when the coast guard helicopter arrived with an emergency pump.

Two fishermen were airlifted to a nearby fishing vessel and three others were taken to hospital to be treated for hypothermia.

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