SIBENIK, Oct 21 (Hina) - A rescue operation aimed at finding two missing sailors of the crew of the sunken ship "Borak" was discontinued on Thursday night due to impossibility to notice them in the darkness, and will be resumed at
dawn tomorrow. The cargo ship went down near the islet Velika Sestrica, off Sibenik, central Dalmatia, at 05.300 am Thursday. Sibenik port authorities, special police using a helicopter and the "Brodospas" carrier are engaged in the operation, said the captain of Sibenik port authorities, Janez Lakos, on Thursday night. Three members of the crew managed to save themselves by swimming toward the nearby islet of Velika Sestrica after the ship sank. Causes of the accident are still unknown. This cargo carrier was transporting 364 tonnes of cement from Istria to Solin, near Split, when it went down. It is owned by Ante Juresko. Juresko was the captain as
SIBENIK, Oct 21 (Hina) - A rescue operation aimed at finding two
missing sailors of the crew of the sunken ship "Borak" was
discontinued on Thursday night due to impossibility to notice them
in the darkness, and will be resumed at dawn tomorrow.
The cargo ship went down near the islet Velika Sestrica, off
Sibenik, central Dalmatia, at 05.300 am Thursday.
Sibenik port authorities, special police using a helicopter and the
"Brodospas" carrier are engaged in the operation, said the captain
of Sibenik port authorities, Janez Lakos, on Thursday night.
Three members of the crew managed to save themselves by swimming
toward the nearby islet of Velika Sestrica after the ship sank.
Causes of the accident are still unknown.
This cargo carrier was transporting 364 tonnes of cement from
Istria to Solin, near Split, when it went down. It is owned by Ante
Juresko. Juresko was the captain as well and he, his son and a sailor
M.C., citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, were rescued.
According to unofficial information, another two missing sailors
are Stjepan Spanic from Zadar and Walter Zimer from Gornji Marof.
The Maritime Affairs and Transport Ministry has set up a commission
to investigate the causes of this accident.
(hina) ms