Seamen lost in icy sea
NZPA-Reuter ■ Juneau, ■'? -/ .. ■ Alaska One South Korean crewman was dead and 20 others were missing in stormy, near-freezing North Pacific waters yesterday as the fireravaged cargo ship Dae Rim wallowed in heavy seas, the United States Coast Guard reported. >'.■ . Of the 26 crew members originally on the Dae Rim,
only two had been rescued. Three others stayed on the Dae Rim. The water temperature was 3deg. said a Coast Guard spokesman in Juneau. The 87m cargo ship was listing 60deg. Twenty-one men jumped overboard, of whom one was rescued. “At that. temperature, life expectancy is 90 minutes but you are unconscious in 15,” he said five hours later. Officials did not know
why the crew abandoned the ship, which caught fire on Saturday night, 90 nautical miles west of Attu, the most western island in the long Aleutian chain. The cause of the fire was unknown. Two Soviet ships, the Capitan . Kymbchenko and the Capitan Vasilevskiy, were on the scene, he said. The Kymbhenko rescued one crew member from the water and another from the deck of the Dae Rim.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19810302.2.60.3
Bibliographic details
Press, 2 March 1981, Page 8
Word Count
184Seamen lost in icy sea Press, 2 March 1981, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in