“Search work is ongoing. There is information that the Imatra trawler found an object with a sonar at a depth. Presumably, this is a ship, ”TASS reported.

The ministry added that in order to confirm the information, another Kalinovka trawler is currently being sent to the area of ​​the found object.

According to the Rosmorrechflot, at the time the ship disappeared from the locators, it was dark in the area of ​​emergency, wind gusts reached 22 m / s, snowfall and high wave were observed, visibility did not exceed 100 m from the side.

Information about the loss of radar contact with the distressed in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk fishing vessel Enigma Astralis appeared on January 27.

Enigma Astralis caught fire in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk near Magadan on January 21. Later it became known that all 47 crew members of the trawler were evacuated to a fishing vessel.