A salvage company's workboat carrying equipment and divers investigating a ship sunk on the seabed departed from a port in Fukuoka Prefecture on the afternoon of the 10th in the sinking accident of a sightseeing ship off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido.
It is expected that it will take about a week to arrive at the scene, and a search by divers will be conducted later this month.
On the 23rd of last month, 14 passengers were killed and 12 people are still missing in the accident where the sightseeing boat "KAZU 1" carrying 26 passengers and crew sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula.
At the sinking site on the 10th, a private salvage company's ship searched underwater with an unmanned submersible, and the Japan Coast Guard and the Self-Defense Forces searched for missing persons in the surrounding sea area, but as of 3:00 pm, new clues Is not found.
On the other hand, another salvage company's work boat carrying divers and equipment that can handle deep seas called "saturation diving" headed for the sinking site from Moji Port in Fukuoka Prefecture around 3:00 pm on the 10th. I left.
The tugboat-drawn workboat is expected to take about a week to arrive, and divers will be ready to perform a "saturation dive" later this month, leaving them behind in a submerged seabed at a depth of approximately 120 meters. I'm planning to find out if there are any people who have been lost.