According to an interview with a person concerned, a passenger's mobile phone was used to report from the tourist boat to the Japan Coast Guard in the accident where a tourist boat with 26 people sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido.
Some of the contact from the ship to the company was also sent from the passenger's mobile phone, and the Japan Coast Guard is investigating the possibility that the mobile phone that the tourist ship applied for as a communication facility could not be connected. ..
On the 23rd, a sightseeing boat "KAZU 1" (Kazuwan / 19 tons) carrying 26 people sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula, and 14 people found in the search were confirmed dead in the week leading up to the 30th. In addition, the hull was found on the seabed on the 29th.
In this accident, when a tour boat called the Japan Coast Guard after 1:00 pm on the day of the accident, it was found by interviewing the people concerned that the passenger's mobile phone was used as the means of communication.
In addition, the company explained that the communication from the ship to the company was confirmed at the end around 2:00 pm, "the call came from the passenger's mobile phone."
In a ship inspection conducted by the government three days before the accident, the company applied for a mobile phone as a communication facility with land that is obliged to be installed, and there are areas where radio waves do not reach the carrier that applied for it. Nevertheless, it is known that it passed the inspection.
The Japan Coast Guard has decided to investigate the possibility that the mobile phone of the tour boat applied for by the national inspection could not be connected.