Jakarta Globe, December 13, 2010
Four fishermen were dead and 18 missing after a South Korean deep-sea trawler with 42 crew members on board sank Monday off Antarctica, Maritime New Zealand said.
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The South Korean deep-sea fishing vessel "No 1 Insung" in better times. The fishing boat sank on Monday in freezing waters near Antarctica, New Zealand and South Korean authorities said. Twenty members of the crew have been rescued by a ship. (Reuters Photo) |
Henderson said all vessels in the remote area had been asked to steam to the site where the ship went down to assist the search for survivors.
A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion plane was also being sent to the area, he said.
Henderson said New Zealand authorities received no distress call before the ship sank. He did not know how the survivors were rescued.
"Whether it's in lifeboats, whether they've been picked up by other vessels is unclear," he said.
"Details are very scant at this stage."
A coastguard spokesman in the southern South Korean port of Busan, where the ship is based, told AFP there were eight Koreans, eight Chinese, 11 Indonesians, 11 Vietnamese, three Filipinos and one Russian on board.
He identified the ship as the 614-ton Number One Insung.
Another South Korean fishing boat was involved in the rescue after reporting the accident to its home port, the spokesman said, and it also asked for help from New Zealand.
Agence-France Presse
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