In the sinking accident of a sightseeing boat off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, a diver entered the ship for the first time on the 19th and searched, but no clue leading to the discovery of the missing person was found. ..
On the 20th, divers will search the ship from around 8 am at the earliest.
On the 23rd of last month, 14 passengers died in the accident where the tourist ship "KAZU 1" (19 tons) carrying 26 passengers and crew sank off the coast of the Shiretoko Peninsula, and the whereabouts of 12 people are still unknown. ..
A private salvage company has been diving divers from the 19th in a way that can cope with deep sea pressure called saturated diving, in order to check if there are any people left behind on a tourist boat that sank to the bottom of the sea at a depth of about 120 meters. I am searching.
According to the 1st Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, on the 19th, a saturated dive was conducted for about 2 hours, and the inside of the ship was searched, but no new clues were found.
The search by saturated diving is scheduled to be carried out on the 20th, and the work of lowering the capsule carrying the diver to the seabed will proceed from the morning, and the search on the ship will start as early as around 8 am.
The salvage company will search for the missing person with the highest priority, and will also proceed with the investigation for the withdrawal of the ship.