A Coast Guard vessel enters Jeju Harbor at 12:30 a.m. on Monday, carrying the physique of a crewmember who died when a fishing boat sank on Friday. (Yonhap)
The Coast Guard on Monday expanded the realm during which it’s looking for the crew members who went lacking final week when a fishing boat sank off the coast of Jeju Island, as one other physique discovered the day earlier than introduced the dying toll to 4.
The Jeju Coast Guard mentioned 47 boats and eight plane have been mobilized within the day’s seek for the ten lacking crew members throughout an space measuring 64 kilometers by 28 kilometers. The search continued for a fourth straight day within the waters close to the wreckage space some 22 kilometers northwest of Biyangdo Island.
The Coast Guard has been collaborating on the search with the Navy and the civilian sector, together with the Navy’s submarine rescue ship Cheonghaejin (ASR-21) and its remotely operated autos. The our bodies of the 2 lacking crewmen discovered on Saturday and Sunday have been found by the Cheonghaejin’s ROVs.
The seek for the 27 crew members of the 129-ton Geumseon has been occurring because the vessel sank within the early hours of Friday. Fifteen of them have been pulled out of the water, however two have been pronounced lifeless upon arrival at a hospital in Jeju Metropolis.
All 4 of the confirmed lifeless have been Korean nationals. The crew of the Geumho comprised 16 Koreans and 11 Indonesians, with eight Koreans and two Indonesians nonetheless unaccounted for as of Monday afternoon.
It was revealed that the boat sank whereas the crew have been transferring their catch to a different vessel. The fishing boat left Seogwipo harbor on the southern a part of Jeju Island shortly earlier than midday Thursday.
Officers consider {that a} majority of the crew weren’t carrying life vests on the time of the accident, and all however two of them have been on the deck when the boat sank.
