(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Iranian state television showed on Monday amateur footage of a team of workers on board a ship taking fuel from Dubai to Iran's Bandar Abbas port being rescued.<br/> <br />The team of documentary-makers who were filming in the waters of Iran's southern Bushehr province, involved in the rescue operation, asked the crew if they were "safe" as they approached the ship.<br/> <br />The vessel -- found in flames -- was carrying a nine-man team.<br/> <br />The narrator said the ship caught fire as a result of a technical problem in the engine room, adding it took "one and a half hours to put the fire out".
