The rescued fishermen spent 15 hours on a raft in the middle of the ocean when the water temperature was 4 degrees.
The fishing vessel Argos Georgia sank near the Falkland Islands, a remote archipelago east of the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic Ocean. The tragedy occurred in the open ocean 424 km from the shore. As a result of the accident, half of the crew died or went missing.
According to Russian media, only 14 of the 27 crew members were saved. It is known that the crew included citizens of five countries, including 8 Russians, 10 Spaniards, 2 Uruguayans, 2 Peruvians and 5 Indonesians. It is still unknown who exactly from the crew was saved and who died.
The identities of the six sailors whose bodies were found in the water have not yet been established. Another seven crew members are considered missing.
The crew of the Argos Georgia gave the first alarm signal on Monday afternoon, July 22. The ship continued to broadcast messages about the accident until 21:23 local time. A few hours after the alarms stopped, two fishing vessels, the Chilean Puerto Toro and the Galician Robin M. Lee, arrived at the scene of the accident. They picked up the sailors who managed to escape on a raft. The Argos Georgia had already sunk by that time. The search was stopped after the sailors were evacuated due to bad weather conditions.
According to the rescued fishermen, they had been in the open sea for more than 15 hours. At that time, the water temperature did not exceed 4℃, and the waves were 7 meters high.
The fishing vessel Argos Georgia was built in 2018 at the Tersan shipyard in Turkey and sailed under the flag of Saint Helena. Its dimensions were 54 meters in length and 13 meters in width.
There is no information yet about what caused the sinking of the ship.
Recall that a cargo ship sank off the coast of Greece. One crew member was rescued, 13 more are missing.
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