On the night of the 27th, a Japanese cargo ship collided with a foreign-registered ship in the Seto Inland Sea off the coast of Ehime Prefecture, and the whereabouts of the three people were lost. At one point, he entered a cargo ship that sank to the bottom of the sea at a depth of about 60 meters.
On the night of the 27th, about 11,000 tons of cargo ship "White Tiger" operated by "Prince Kaiun" of Kobe City and about 2700 chemical tanker "ULSAN PIONEER" registered in Marshall Islands near the Kurushima Strait northwest of Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture The tonnage collided and the cargo ship overturned and sank.
In this accident, of the 12 crew members of the cargo ship, the captain was Yasushi Sato (66) from Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, the first engineer was Yuki Ogawa (27) from Hokuto City, Hokkaido, and the second engineer. The whereabouts of three people, Takahiro Uwabatake (22), in Makurazaki City, Kagoshima Prefecture, are unknown.
From the 28th to the early morning of the 29th, the Japan Coast Guard's special rescue team conducted three diving searches.
According to the Imabari Coast Guard, two searches, one after 6:30 pm on the 28th and one after 1:00 am on the 29th, caused a special rescue team to temporarily sank to the seabed at a depth of about 60 meters. It means that we entered the ship near the stern.
The search so far has not found any clues that could lead to the three.
Special rescue teams and others are planning to conduct diving searches about every 6 hours during the time when the tide is weakening.