# A harrowing photo and an ugly story **URL:** \ **Category:** Marine Incidents\ **Created:** [December 3, 2014, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/a-harrowing-photo-and-an-ugly-story/13753 "2014-12-03T08:10:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/a-harrowing-photo-and-an-ugly-story/13753/1 "2014-12-03T08:10:29Z")
the wheelhouse is completely sheared off and the ship appears broken in two! > [[B]Weather Hampers Search for Fishing Vessel Survivors[/B]](http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Weather-Hampers-Search-for-Fishing-Vessel-Survivors-2014-12-02) > > By MarEx December 02, 2014 > > More than 50 people remain missing a day after a South Korean fishing vessel sank in the Bering Sea off the coast of Russia’s far eastern Chukotka region as severe weather conditions hampered a rescue operation, officials said on Tuesday. > > Eight people - a Russian official, a South Korean crew member, three Filipinos and three Indonesians - have been pulled from the water although the South Korean died of hypothermia, officials in Seoul said. > > U.S. rescue helicopters joined the search operation for several hours on Tuesday but failed to make headway, South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won told a meeting of government officials. > > The South Korean government and Sajo Industries, the vessel’s operator, said there were 60 people on board, including 11 South Koreans, 13 Filipinos and 35 Indonesians. > > Artur Rets, the head of the maritime rescue service in Russia’s far eastern port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, had said on Monday that records showed 62 people on board. > > “When the fish were being hauled in, the vessel was hit by a wave,” Rets said, adding that the South Korean vessel, the Oriong-501, had sunk. > > The 36-year-old vessel was one of a large fleet of ships operated by Sajo Industries, which owns the world’s largest number of tuna fishing vessels, according to its Website. > > Sajo, founded in 1971 and initially focused on trawling and tuna fishing, has expanded into food and meat processing and runs a golf resort. > > The company’s shares fell 3.5 percent on Tuesday in their highest volume in nearly four years. They had climbed to a 17-month high the day before, after the company reported operating profit more than doubled to 44.6 billion won ($40.2 million) in the first three quarters of this year from a year earlier. (1 US dollar = 1,109.7200 Korean won) ---
**Author:** ![tugsailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/a-harrowing-photo-and-an-ugly-story/13753/2 "2014-12-03T08:28:12Z")
[QUOTE=c.captain;149048]the wheelhouse is completely sheared off and the ship appears broken in two![/QUOTE] That looks like the wrong picture. The Reuters photo showed a much larger vessel with twin gantries, and reported that the vessel had sunk. This photo shows a much smaller, 100 to 120 foot, trawler on the rocks. From the bite taken out of the starboard side it looks like she was rammed. ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/a-harrowing-photo-and-an-ugly-story/13753/3 "2014-12-03T09:03:05Z")
[QUOTE=tugsailor;149050]That looks like the wrong picture. The Reuters photo showed a much larger vessel with twin gantries, and reported that the vessel had sunk. This photo shows a much smaller, 100 to 120 foot, trawler on the rocks. From the bite taken out of the starboard side it looks like she was rammed.[/QUOTE] that obviously makes more sense…STOOPID media! ---
**Author:** ![seadog6608](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@seadog6608](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/seadog6608)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/a-harrowing-photo-and-an-ugly-story/13753/4 "2014-12-03T18:38:47Z")
God bless them.