At 4:15 p.m. on October 10, talk to PV YouthMr. Vo Van Hung, Chairman of the Quang Tri Provincial People’s Committee, said that the Defense Ministry had accepted the proposal with Quang Tri Province and was sending the helicopter to the site of the Vietship 01 wreck to participate in the work of rescue. homes.
Trouble saving crew members clinging to the chimney of the ship Vietship 01 about to sink
|
“In my opinion, this is the optimal plan at the moment. According to the information I have, the helicopter is on its way. However, it is necessary for this force to calculate the plan because the rescue work depends on the real situation on the ground, the weather, ”Hung said.
Small fishermen continue to be used for rescue (photo taken at 3:00 p.m. on 10.10)
|
Before that, around 3 p.m. on the same day (10.10), there was a new development in the rescue area when another fishing boat was brought in and continued to rush out to sea. At 4:00 pm on the same day, this lifeboat returned to shore, carrying 2 people (who have been involved in the rescue since morning, trapped on Vietship 01).
The reason for bringing these two instead of the crew is because their location is more accessible.
Vietship Rescue 01 ship off the coast of Quang Tri Province
|
One of the two was brought ashore from Vietship 01 at 4:00 pm on October 10.
|
Currently on the Vietship 01 ship there are 8 members of the crew of this ship and 1 person in the rescue team is still awaiting rescue.
How Youth reported, the ship Vietship 01 anchored in the port area of Cua Viet (H.Gio Linh) was washed away by the floodwaters into the sea, stranded in an area approximately 1 km from the coast. There are 12 crew on board.
The lifeboat approaches Vietship 01
|
On the morning of October 9, 2 crew members wore life jackets for swimming and both showed signs of exhaustion. At dusk on the same day, two more crew members were knocked off the Vietship 01 freighter by the waves, adrift towards the coast of the Trieu An commune (Trieu Phong). On the morning of October 10, a boat carrying 4 people crossed the waves to rescue also sank, of which 1 person was able to swim, 2 people were simply rescued as mentioned above.