Coast Guard officers seek for lacking crew members aboard the 129-ton Geumseong that sank off Jeju Island yesterday, on this photograph supplied by the Jeju Coast Guard, Nov. 9. Yonhap
The nighttime search operation to search out 12 lacking crew members from a fishing boat that sank yesterday continued for a second day Saturday, the coast guard stated.
The authorities have mobilized 47 ships and 5 plane to conduct the nighttime seek for the lacking crew, in response to the Jeju Coast Guard.
The 129-ton Geumseong was carrying 27 crew members — 16 Koreans and 11 Indonesians — when the Coast Guard obtained a misery name yesterday that the boat was sinking 24 kilometers off Jeju’s Biyang Island.
Of the 27, 15 had been rescued by a close-by vessel, together with two who had been present in a state of cardiac arrest and brought to close by hospitals. The 2, each Koreans, had been later pronounced useless.
Plane may even be mobilized to drop 222 illumination flares to assist the operation.
The Coast Guard, in the meantime, stated the fishing boat is believed to be standing upright on the seafloor with out having overturned. (Yonhap)
A Coast Guard vessel searches for lacking crew members aboard the 129-ton Geumseong that sank off Jeju Island yesterday, on this photograph supplied by the Jeju Coast Guard, Nov. 9. Yonhap
