The Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler has run aground in the Sea of Okhotsk at 06:39 local time (23:39 MSK) on April 2.
has run aground in the Sea of Okhotsk at 06:39 local time (23:39 MSK) on April 2.There were 132 people on board the trawler, including 78 Russians and 54 foreign nationals from Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Myanmar, Vanuatu and Latvia.According to updated reports, 54 bodies were recovered and 63 were rescued. Fifteen more people still missing are believed to have been in ship holds as the trawler sank. "But life jackets would enable them to survive only 15-20 minutes," one of the local emergency services said.The hotline call center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Vestnik Kavkaza the names of the Azerbaijani survivors: Imadeddin Sadihov (born in 1969), Mailaga Talybov (born in 1964), Elman Aliyev (born in 1964), Yashar Aliyev (born in 1975). There is no information about Mahammad Safarov (born in 1964), Muradali Maharramov (born in 1987) or Fazil Shakarov (born in 1959).Search operations are underway."At the moment the investigators believe that the most probable cause of the fast submersion of the vessel is a possible collision with an obstacle," the official spokesman of Russia’s Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said.
There were 132 people on board the trawler, including 78 Russians and 54 foreign nationals from Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Myanmar, Vanuatu and Latvia.
According to updated reports, 54 bodies were recovered and 63 were rescued. Fifteen more people still missing are believed to have been in ship holds as the trawler sank. "But life jackets would enable them to survive only 15-20 minutes," one of the local emergency services said.
The hotline call center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Vestnik Kavkaza the names of the Azerbaijani survivors: Imadeddin Sadihov (born in 1969), Mailaga Talybov (born in 1964), Elman Aliyev (born in 1964), Yashar Aliyev (born in 1975). There is no information about Mahammad Safarov (born in 1964), Muradali Maharramov (born in 1987) or Fazil Shakarov (born in 1959).
Search operations are underway.
"At the moment the investigators believe that the most probable cause of the fast submersion of the vessel is a possible collision with an obstacle," the official spokesman of Russia’s Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said.
