From: "Albert" Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 14:05:52 +0100To: Budiman
DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2010 348 14-12-2010 Page 12 22
feared dead after SKorean trawler sinks in Antarctica A South Korean trawler
sank suddenly and without warning off Antarctica Monday, killing up to 22
fishermen, with its owners saying it may have collided with an iceberg.
Rescuers said the 22 men from the No. 1 Insung had no chance to don protective
gear as they scrambled to escape the trawler and were presumed dead as they had
only 10 minutes' survival time in the icy waters. The trawler went down so fast
it did not even have a chance to send an SOS before plunging to the depths of
the Southern Ocean, Maritime New Zealand said. Insung Corporation spokesman
Ryan Kim said the company was trying to understand what happened. "The boat
sank in about 30 minutes. We are trying hard to find the reason why it sank so
quickly," he told AFP. We believe the vessel might have been hit by an iceberg
or a strong wave, although we have yet to secure any evidence of this. We are
now collecting information from the surviving crew." Another trawler plucked 20
fishermen from the sea shortly after the ship sank about 6:30am (1730 Sunday
GMT) but the rest of the 42-strong crew had only minutes to live without proper
immersion suits. Five died immediately and rescuers initially hoped some of the
17 missing had reached a lifeboat. Maritime New Zealand coordinated desperate
efforts by five trawlers to search the remote area 1,000 nautical miles north
of the McMurdo Antarctic base and 1,500 nautical miles from New Zealand's
southern tip. But rescue controller Dave Wilson admitted defeat late Monday,
saying "it was increasingly unlikely further survivors would be found".
Maritime NZ spokesman Ross Henderson said the boat appeared to have gone down
in calm conditions and did not send an SOS. "We had no distress signal. At this
stage we don't know what caused the vessel to sink," he told AFP. "There was no
emergency communication or beacon alert of any type, which we would normally
expect in these sort of situations. We don't know what the reason for that is."
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. Chinese
state media said there were four Chinese among the missing, but the other
victims' nationalities were unknown. The waters around Antarctica are
notoriously rough but Henderson said conditions Monday consisted of light 10
knot winds and a one-metre (3.3-foot) swell. He said New Zealand, which is in
charge of rescue operations in the area, was not informed of the accident until
1:00pm, about six and a half hours after it occurred. Plans to send a Royal New
Zealand Air Force long-range Orion plane were "not viable" because it would
take at least eight hours to reach the location and the crew members would
certainly be dead by then, Henderson said. The 20 survivors and bodies were on
another South Korean fishing vessel, No. 707 Hongjin. The stricken trawler was
fishing for Patagonian toothfish, a rare species that lives in waters so cold
that Greenpeace says it has a form of anti-freeze in its blood. The fish,
marketed as Chilean seabass, is popular in South America, the US and Japan and
is often illegally caught. Greenpeace, which says the Patagonian toothfish is
known as "white gold" in the industry for its highly valued flesh, lists it as
a species in danger of being unsustainable. The Commission for the Conservation
of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the global body overseeing
fishing in Antarctic waters, said Insung had submitted papers to renew the
trawler's licence just before it sank. The No.1 Insung was one of seven South
Korean vessels licensed to fish in the Southern Ocean, five of which were
hunting toothfish, CCAMLR said. The Korean fleet is not the dominant fleet but
it's one of the major operators in the Southern Ocean targeting toothfish,"
CCAMLR director Andrew Wright told AFP. It had a permit to trawl Antarctic
waters until June 2014.
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