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(ROK) Fishing boat missing after searching for sailors from sunken ship (update, collision)
Yonhap ^ | April 3, 2010

Posted on 04/02/2010 6:27:28 PM PDT by Shermy

Fishing boat missing after searching for sailors from sunken ship

SEOUL, April 3 (Yonhap) -- A fishing boat has vanished and is feared to have sunk after searching for sailors missing from last week's naval disaster, maritime police said Saturday.

Police said they lost contact with the 99-ton boat, Kumyang 98, carrying nine people aboard, after receiving a distress signal at around 8:30 p.m. Friday in the area off the western sea border with North Korea, where the patrol ship Cheonan ship sank on March 26.

The fishing boat was among 10 vessels mobilized to find the Cheonan's 46 missing sailors. The other 58 crew members were rescued.

The maritime police and navy said that they have sent 16 patrol ships and other vessels, three helicopters and one aircraft to the scene for search and rescue operations.

The police said they caught a Cambodian-registered 1,472-ton freighter sailing nearby, alleging it hit Kumyang.

A police spokesman said scratches in the bow of the ship indicate it was in a collision, also evidenced by oil apparently from the Kumyang floating in waters near the scene.

The freighter in question is being escorted to Incheon Port, the spokesman said.

The nine missing are skipper Kim Jae-hoo, 48, chief engineer Park Yon-joo, 49, Lee Yong-sang, 46, Ahn Sang-chol, 41, Kim Jong-pyong, 55, Chung Bong-jo, 49, Huh Suk-hee, 33, Yusuf Haaefa, 35, and Cambang Nurcahyo, 36.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collision; maritime; shipwreck; sinking; southkorea

1 posted on 04/02/2010 6:27:28 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Collision with a torpedo?
2 posted on 04/02/2010 6:29:01 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Shermy

prayers


3 posted on 04/02/2010 6:32:19 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: Shermy

Cambodian scum.


4 posted on 04/02/2010 6:36:00 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: Shermy

The article says boat, at 99tons that is a ship.


5 posted on 04/02/2010 6:41:09 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Jet Jaguar

6 posted on 04/02/2010 6:57:55 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Shermy

Lots of small naval skirmishes going on in that part of the world...


7 posted on 04/02/2010 6:58:40 PM PDT by Bean Counter (I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
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To: jhpigott; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; SunkenCiv

*ping*


8 posted on 04/02/2010 7:05:08 PM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: Shermy
Ramming Speed Pictures, Images and Photos
9 posted on 04/02/2010 7:18:53 PM PDT by Molson Labe
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To: Shermy

Time for the Communist scumbags to start having some “accidents”.


10 posted on 04/02/2010 7:34:47 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: Shermy

There was also another incident last week - a diver going to the wreck of the sunken South Korean warship died by accident.

Lots of accidents.

And no real explanation of what sank the warship.


11 posted on 04/02/2010 8:24:27 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: Shermy

They need to let us come in and mine-sweep the area, and take back any of our ships we happen to see on display.


12 posted on 04/03/2010 6:38:59 AM PDT by Rocketwolf68 (Bring back the crusades)
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