A fishing boat capsized in South Korea recently, resulting in six people missing, but one of them relied on the air pocket inside the boat for 40 hours to survive, and was successfully rescued in a dramatic way.
The Chosun Ilbo quoted the Pohang Marine Police Agency as saying that the incident occurred at nearly 7 p.m. on the evening of the 19th in waters about 42 kilometers east of Pohang in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. The incident occurred when a 10-ton red crab fishing boat, Jurong, sank. The marine police and the navy immediately mobilized to search and rescue the boat overnight, braving strong winds and waves of 12 to 16 meters per second.
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The report said the marine police to look for possible survivors inside the ship, the third day of the search in the morning of the 21st, sent divers into the sea, first knocking on the hull a dozen times, in the case of nothing, and then into the fishing boat to search the interior, and finally found in the stern of the seafood stored in the fish compartment, 56-year-old engineer surnamed Liu, then sent him to the helicopter, carried to the hospital for treatment.
Marine police sources pointed out that “the seawater temperature in the accident is about 12 degrees Celsius, lower than the temperature of the public bathhouse cold pool. After the capsize of the fishing boat, he (Liu surnamed captain) seems to rely on the remaining air in the empty fish tank, miraculously seem to survive”.
The report said that when the ship capsized, the air cavity can prevent the loss of air inside the ship, known as the “last living space”. The captain of the engine surnamed Liu was rescued at the Time in a state of hypothermia, but still quite clear consciousness, and reported to the marine police that he had seen four other crew members wearing Life jackets before the fishing boat capsized, “I was also planning to escape, but did not succeed”.
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