Even in an overnight search, we couldn’t find the three missing people from the sinking of a fishing boat in Geoje.

-The Gyeongnam Tongyeong Coast Guard searched the sea near Galgot Island, Nambu-myeon, Geoje-si from the night of the 23rd to the morning of the 24th for the rescue work of the three missing large-scale fishing boat crews, but no results have been achieved.

According to the Tongyeong Maritime Police Station on the 24th, out of the 10 crew of a 339t-class large-scale tugboat that sank in Busan on the 23rd, three people, including the captain, who have not yet been rescued, are working hard to search.

The Tongyeong Coast Guard was responsible for the rescue of three missing crew members of a 339t-class large ship that sank (estimated) about 1.1km (0.6 nautical miles) southeast of Galgot Island, Nam-myeon, Geoje-si at 3:47 pm the previous day. Two aircraft and the navy (three ships and one aircraft) are dispatched to the site to search for missing crew members.

However, from the afternoon of the 23rd to the dawn of the 24th, they ran the aircraft and searched all night while firing flares from the ship, but they were unable to find the missing crew. The weather at sea at the accident site is bad. At the site of the accident, a storm warning is in effect, and the weather is in bad condition, such as a wave height of 2.0 to 3.5 m and a northeast wind of 14 to 16 m per second.

Tongyeong Coast Guard said, “We are making every effort to search for the missing persons to return to their families as soon as possible.” “We plan to search the accident site by mobilizing 23 security ships and 7 aircraft on the 24th.”

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