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The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) was scheduled to resume an aerial search on Monday for the missing crew members, mostly Filipinos, of a cargo ship that sank off Japan last week at the height of a storm, reported the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). .
A second, more violent storm had forced the Japanese authorities to suspend on Sunday their massive search for survivors of the Panamanian-flagged ship Gulf Livestock 1 with a cargo of 5,867 cattle and 43 sailors, two of them New Zealanders, two Australians and the rest. . Filipinos.
“The area is still buffeted by gusts of wind and a search with a patrol boat is not possible at this time,” DFA said. The DFA held out hope, through the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo and the Philippine Consulate General in Osaka, that the other Philippine seafarers could be found.
The Japan Times He said Gulf Livestock 1 sent a distress call from west of Amami Oshima Island on Wednesday as Typhoon Haishen swept through southern Japan and headed toward the Korean Peninsula, bringing strong winds, storm surge and torrential rain.
The JCG had rescued a Filipino crew member, Sareno Edvarodo, a 45-year-old chief officer from the Philippines, on Wednesday night while searching for the ship.
According to Edvarodo, the boat lost an engine before a wave hit it and capsized. When the ship sank, the crew were instructed to don life jackets. Edvarodo told the coast guard that he jumped into the water and did not see any other crew members before being rescued. Straight L. Mercene
