Passing By Ships Stopped Searching Trawler Vostok in the Sea of Japan

"Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Vladivostok stopped notifying ships passing through the Sea of Japan to look for m/v Vostok missed on 25 January," said Nikolai Pirozhkov, the head of Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre to TASS.

"Notification to passing by ships to look for m/v Vostok missing in the Sea of Japan is ceased. The SAR active phase was over on 29 January, then we kept searching for 9 days more but found nothing," said Pirozhkov.

The press-office of the EMERCOM Main Department in Primorski Krai informed TASS that aircraft will not be used for searching m/v Vostok search on Thursday due to harsh weather conditions. Decision to finish the search is not taken yet.

EPIRB of fishing freezerVostok (port of registry: Nevelsk, Sakhalin region) had activated on 25 January in the Sea of Japan, 50 to 70 nm off Posyet, Primorsky Krai; the ship had 20 persons on board. Two empty rafts from m/v Vostok were found by the end of the third day of SAR operation. Since then, no other signs of the ship or the crew were found by the rescuers.

 

В Японском море прекратили поиск траулера "Восток" проходящими судами
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