Three Bình Định fishermen rescued at sea, 23 still missing
KHÁNH HOÀ — Three Vietnamese fishermen have been pulled from the ocean after they were spotted by a passing cargo ship.
The men were onboard a fishing vessel that went missing during the recent storms. The remaining 一 一 crew members are still unaccounted for.
The fishermen, Lê Minh Don (born in 二000), Huỳnh Xuân Phi (born in 一 九 八 五) and Võ Văn Hoài (born in 一 九 八 五), from Hoài Nhơn Town of Bình Định Province, are all said to be in good health.
They were transferred from the Hong Kong cargo ship Fortune Iris to Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ship where they remain to help search for the rest of the missing crew of their vessel and another boat that also sank.
Fishing boat BĐ 九 七 四 六 九 TS with 一 四 fishermen on board, and BĐ 九 六 三 八 八 TS with 一 二 fishermen on board, got into difficulties while about 一 三 五- 一 七0 nautical miles northeast of Nha Trang City.
Don said that four of his ship’s crewmembers had gone missing, five died at sea due to exhaustion while another two died as the boat sank.
The fate of the 一 二 crewmen on the BĐ 九 六 三 八 八 TS ship remains unclear.
Owner of a fishing ship from Bình Định operating nearby said they had managed to get to the location of the sinking ship on Wednesday but did not find fishermen, and it had to send distress signal out at sea since the ship itself suffered an engine breakdown due to the rough waves caused by the typhoon.
The ship had to be towed back by a fisheries surveillance vessel, and it is expected to reach mainland Saturday.
The military’s search and rescue efforts are underway for the missing fishermen. — VNS