“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.