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Cargo ship sinks.. 12 crew members missing
« on: May 05, 2014, 06:11:39 AM »
Twelve crew members are missing from a Chinese cargo ship after it collided with a container vessel and sank.

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Re: Cargo ship sinks.. 12 crew members missing
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2014, 01:00:03 PM »
Below from internet news
From personal experience I know that the approaches to HKG are one of the most dangerous in the world by volume of traffic, special a lot other smaller vessels which one is unable to contact or communicate with because of lack of english language or at least poor lnowledge of same

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HONG KONG, May 5, 2014 (AFP) - Authorities launched an air and sea rescue operation Monday to find 11 crew members from a Chinese cargo ship after it collided with another vessel and sank just outside Hong Kong's teeming waters.


Four helicopters and more than 20 ships from China and Hong Kong were deploying to the waters near Po Toi, an island lying at the edge of Hong Kong's territory where the ship sank in the early hours of the morning, officials said.

"Two cargo ships collided and one of them sank," a police spokeswoman told AFP.

Aerial footage of the scene shown on Hong Kong television showed an oil slick on the surface of the sea where the ship is believed to have gone down.

A fire department spokesman said there were 12 people in total on board, with police confirming that one male was later rescued and sent to hospital.

The survivor, who was plucked from the sea by a passing fishing boat, suffered minor injuries to his hands and feet, she said.

China said it was sending three helicopters and more than a dozen ships to the scene, according to the official Xinhua news agency, while Hong Kong sent a helicopter and eight rescue vessels.

A fire department spokesman said the collision took place three miles (nearly five kilometres) south of Po Toi, just outside Hong Kong maritime territory.

- Crowded waters -

The 97-metre long Chinese cargo ship, the Zhong Xing 2, was carrying cement from the Northern Chinese province of Hebei to the city of Haikou in the nation's southern island of Hainan, the city's Marine Department told AFP.

It collided with a 300-metre long container ship, the Marshall Islands-registered MOL Motivator, whose crew members are all safe, the department said.

"The rescue work is carried out and coordinated by the Guangdong rescue coordination centre," a Marine Department spokeswoman said.

Hong Kong's waters are notoriously crowded. Hundreds of vessels, from wooden sampans to enormous container ships, ply the shipping routes that criss-cross the territory, one of the world's busiest ports, every day
NOW!!!,,,if we could get rid of the sailors,,how safe shipping would be !!!!!!!!

 

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