At least 43 dead after Russian trawler sinks in ocean: TASS

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Wed Apr 1, 2015 9:19pm EDT

(Reuters) - At least 43 people have died after a Russian trawler sank late on Wednesday in the Western Pacific Ocean near the Kamchatka Peninsula, the TASS news agency reported, citing an officer at a maritime rescue coordination center in the area.

There were 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler and 63 people have been rescued, TASS said.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/us-russia-ship-idUSKBN0MT03K20150402?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

[marym625]

1. How sad

What's a trawler? Obviously, some kind of ship. I have never heard of it.

This is why I won't go on a cruise. Ships of any sort scare me

[Stryst]

2. A trawler is a fishing boat

The kind that drags nets behind it.

[marym625]

3. Thank you

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. A fishing vessel.

Or during the Cold War- a spy ship.

[marym625]

5. Oh!

Interesting. Thanks!

[jtuck004]

7. A boat full of working people. And one of the most dangerous professions. n/t

[marym625]

9. I don't know why

But somehow, dying while working just seems to be the worst way to go. Just so horribly unfair.

[Submariner]

10. This is the trawler that sunk

http://gcaptain.com/least-43-dead-russian-trawler-sinks-western-pacific/

[joshcryer]

11. The reason it has so many is they typically do processing on board.

So the stuff is gutted and packaged before it arrives in the port.

[Brother Buzz]

12. I believe their is some flash freezing involved in the process, too

Clarence Birdseye, the curious fuck, would loved to have looked at the entire production line.

[joshcryer]

13. Yeah, Atlantic Dawn is probably most famous.

The largest ships can literally make extinct species of fish if they were allowed to fish for more than a few weeks.

It's a pretty efficient process. Too bad that a lot of countries are ignoring quotas and the fish population is still on the decline.

[Brother Buzz]

14. Indeed

I've heard them referred to as vacuum ships.

[marym625]

15. Thank you

I wondered about that.

What a tragedy

[840high]

6. Tragedy Rest in Peace.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Used to be, there was a factory whaling ship named the Dalniy Vostok

Greenpeace dusted it up with the ship in Zodiacs off the California coast early on in the movement.

1975: Greenpeace launches its campaign to save whales as its vessel Phyllis Cormack confronts the Soviet whaling ship Dalniy Vostok, 60 miles off the coast of Eureka, California. A Greenpeace inflatable Zodiac is positioned between the harpoon and a targeted whale. The gunner fires, narrowly missing the Zodiac, but the filmed record of the people risking their lives to protect whales helps launch a worldwide movement.

[Sunlei]

16. read they hauled in an 80 ton netfull & swamped the ship. Can't see how anyone survived :(

backbreaking dangerous work.

[Eugene]

17. Russian trawler was sunk by greed and corruption: investigators

Source: Reuters

World | Wed Apr 8, 2015 2:27pm EDT

Russian trawler was sunk by greed and corruption: investigators

MOSCOW

(Reuters) - Greed and corruption were to blame for the sinking of a Russian trawler last week in which at least 56 crew died, a spokesman for investigators said on Wednesday.

The Dalniy Vostok fishing vessel sank in the icy Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's far eastern coast last Thursday. Sixty-three people were rescued out of a crew of 132 people, with 13 missing presumed dead.

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"There are no doubts that this is a crime at the base of which lies the greed of the businessmen who owned the vessel and corrupt officials," Vladimir Markin, the Investigative Committee spokesman, told Rossiya 1 television, TASS news agency reported.

"Both the owner of this vessel and the captain knew that in the petrol tanks there was a minimal amount of fuel, the trawler's ability to right itself was affected."

Markin also said investigators had established that there were not enough lifeboats on the Dalniy Vostok for over 20 crew members.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/08/us-russia-ship-investigation-idUSKBN0MZ20420150408

[Beacool]

18. I'm so sorry.

May they rest in peace.