10 sailors jumped off the sunken rice transporter

On the morning of December 23rd, Mr. Nguyen Hung Tan, Head of Binh Thuan Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue, said that the captain and 9 (unidentified) sailors aboard Dong Yang were saved. . by. One person was injured in the shoulder during the rescue, the other nine were in good health.

“The crew members were picked up by foreign cargo ships from the raft, currently on their way back to China to hand them over to the authorities,” Tan said.

The Dong Yang ship carrying 3,000 tons of rice from An Giang to Malaysia, on the morning of December 21, as it passed through the Binh Thuan Sea, 37 nautical miles from Phuc Tan Beach (Ba Ria – Vung Tau) , the incident shook, tipped 25 degrees, the water. in the cargo hold.

Upon receiving emergency signals, the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center mobilized nearby cargo ships to come rescue.

In the afternoon of the same day, the ship sank. Crew members drop buoys, jump to escape. At that time, wind level 8, 7m high waves due to the influence of Typhoon Krovanh.

During the past week, bad weather and accidents occurred continuously in the Binh Thuan sea area. On 12/21, the Chem Sinyoo (Marshall Island) carrying chemicals broke 41 nautical miles off the island of Phu Quy. The big wave caused the ship to crash, causing the death of a 32-year-old mechanic, an Indonesian national; Four others were injured. On December 17, the ship Xin Hong (Panama) that was transporting clay through this sea also tipped and sank, 11 sailors were rescued, two were killed and two have not been found.

Also, two days ago, a large wave hit Hon Hai (Phu Quy Island District) and washed away two missing members of the lighthouse.

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