A captain’s “suicidal actions” have been blamed for a shipwreck of a fishing vessel that allegedly set sail to poach in the Sea of Okhotsk, in the southern vicinity of the Sakhalin island.
The bodies of three people have been lifted from the waters of the La Perouse Strait while Russian and Japanese rescuers are carrying on with a so-far-unsuccessful search for the remaining five crew members.
The Ginga fishing ship should have been undergoing repairs in Nevelsk on Sakhalin, according to her documents, Nikolai Sukhanov, deputy chairman of the Russian Sailors’ Trade Union, said. “Proceeding to sea, especially during a storm was forbidder for her,” he told RIA Novosti.
