The accident in which a sightseeing boat carrying 26 people was lost off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido takes 30 days and a week from the outbreak.


So far, 14 passengers have died and 12 are still unknown.


The 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters will search the inside of the ship using an underwater camera as early as 30 days to check if there are any people left behind on the tour boat found to be sunk on the 29th. I am doing it.

On the 23rd of this month, a tour boat "KAZU 1" (19 tons) carrying 26 passengers and crew was distressed off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, killing 14 passengers found in the surrounding waters so far. It was confirmed.

It's been 30 days since the outbreak and it's been a week, but the whereabouts of 12 people are still unknown.



On the 29th, about 1 km offshore from "Kashni Falls" near the accident site, "KAZU 1" was found sunk on the seabed at a depth of about 120 meters.



According to the 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, the tour boat found is sunk with the bottom down.



The depth of the site exceeds the limit that divers of the Japan Coast Guard can dive, but the Japan Coast Guard headquarters can be operated remotely as early as 30 days because there may be people left behind on the ship. I am going to search the inside of the ship using an underwater camera.



In addition, the policy is to continue searching at sea while expanding the scope, and to hurry to find 12 missing persons.

Donating flowers at the corpse of the president of a tour boat operator

On the 29th, President Seiichi Katsura, a tour boat operator, visited a local sports facility where the bodies of passengers were enshrined and handed flowers.



Seiichi Katsura, president of the sightseeing boat operator "Shiretoko Tour Boat", said that the body of the passenger was enshrined in a car he drove around 10 pm on the 29th after explaining to the passenger's family. I visited an athletic facility.



President Katsura got out of the car and went to the flower stand and handed a bouquet of white lilies.

Then, after lightly lowering his head toward the facility and putting his hands together, he sat down on the ground, lowered his head for a while, and then put his hands together toward the facility again.



After that, I got into the car and left the facility without responding to the reporters' call.



President Katsura visited the facility on the 28th, but at that time he did not offer flowers.

Explanations by company employees to passengers' families

In the wake of the tour boat's distress accident, the company's employees will explain in the future, saying that the explanation to the passenger's family by the president of the operating company is insufficient.



Following the distress accident of a sightseeing boat, Seiichi Katsura, president of the operating company "Shiretoko Tour Boat", gave a private explanation to the passengers' families twice in the morning and afternoon on the 29th.



According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, on the afternoon of the accident, an employee of the operating company who was responding at the office attended and clarified the circumstances leading up to the departure and the conversation with the captain.



While President Katsura's explanation was insufficient, many families accepted that the explanation from the company employees could give them an idea of ​​the actual state of safety management, so another employee will attend in the future. An explanation will be given.



Kenta Sakamaki, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, said, "I think my family wants to know what kind of relationship the president and employees have had so far. But I want to show the schedule. "