# Salvage tragedy: 3 divers under collapsed container

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**Category:** Marine Incidents\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/salvage-tragedy-3-divers-under-collapsed-container/53562 "2019-12-12T19:11:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/salvage-tragedy-3-divers-under-collapsed-container/53562/1 "2019-12-12T19:11:20Z")

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> **[Salvage tragedy: 3 divers under collapsed container, missing; 2 in coma –...](https://www.maritimebulletin.net/2019/12/11/salvage-tragedy-3-divers-under-collapsed-container-missing-2-in-coma/)**

> VIETSUN INTEGRITY disaster story  
> Oct 19: Container ship VIETSUN INTEGRITY capsized and sank between buoys 28/30 on Long Tau river, while sailing downstream from Ho Chi Munh to Vung Tau, Vietnam, at 2330 LT (UTC +7) Oct 18. Hull is partially above water, a number of containers are floating around, 17 crew made to the shore, all safe, there were 290 containers on board.

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**Author:** ![tugger50](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/tugger50/32/1090_2.png) [@tugger50](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugger50)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/salvage-tragedy-3-divers-under-collapsed-container/53562/2 "2019-12-12T21:32:31Z")

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Wonder if she might have hit some unexploded ordinance left over from the war. My old stomping grounds out of Nha Be. The SS Eastern Mariner was sunk by a VC mine right by the base. Sad about the divers.