New search for Korean seamen

Press, 29 August 1977, Page 6

New search for Korean seamen

PA Auckland A search for 10 Korean fishermen believed to be drifting on a make-shift raft about 1500 km north of Fiji resumed yesterday after a Taiwanese fishing vessel picked up seven survivors in a liferaft on Saturday. The rescued fishermen said that 10 other crew members of the ship Nam Hae No. 208 had made a raft out of oil drums after the rubber liferaft they were in had sunk soon after the ship sank last Monday. At first light yesterday, a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion joined four American aircraft in a search of the area. Some fishing buoys were discovered and an empty

j I dory was washed up on the, shore of Nanumea Island. a; The first knowledge Search e and Rescue authorities in I Fiji had that the boat had . i sunk was w’hen a Taiwanese . fishing boat reported picking a up a Korean fisherman who ■1 was floating on a large glass n ■ fishing buoy last Wednesday. At the time he was picked d; up. an Orion was in the area si and spent the next two days B..searching for other survivors, il;However, nothing was found: - and the search was called k off. ;t| Conditions in the area are almost perfect and the search a wiE resume again this mornrling. ir; The rescued seamen are h | reported to be in good con dition and are being taken to e> Samoa. It is not known why y the Nam Hae sank.