Active search for sailors from sunken ship Sinegorye is extended in the Sea of Japan
Active search for sailors from sunken ship Sinegorye has been extended till 11 a.m. (Moscow time), Vldivostok rescue center reports according to IA REGNUM. The search is continued in territorial waters of South Korea by local patrol boats. Russian vessels participating in rescue operation have left the area. The Suvorovets rescue tug is going to the port of Pusan (South Korea), while the Mashuk vessel is returning to Vladivostok with. Onboard the vessel there are three bodies found by the rescue team on October 28. It was established that two of the three bodies are of the Sinegorye crewmembers. One of them has been identified as machinist Yurlasov's, the second one has not yet been identified. There is no information on the possibility of the third body's being of one of the crewmembers.
Earlier, REGNUM informed that eleven crew members were found alive during rescue operation; motor mechanic and gas welder Valery Dudka died. Chief mechanic Vladimir Goncharov, electrician Pyotr Lukomsky, seamen Sergey Safonchik, Alexei Sidelnikov, and Alexei Shubin, and the ship’s second mechanic Sergey Panov were rescued on October 25. Earlier, on October 24, second mate Vyacheslav Lozitsky, third mate Pavel Chupin, third mechanic Pavel Pletnyov, boatswain Anatoly Onoshko, and chief mate Mikhail Rudnev were found in the area of the shipwreck. Body of one more crew member was found on October 26.