Basarnas Team Searches For Ship With 9 Passengers Missing In Ternate Waters

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TERNATE - The Search and Rescue Office of the Ternate Basarnas, North Maluku (Malut) conducted a search for the fishing boat KM Imanuel 14 with nine passengers reported to have experienced engine failure in the waters of Batang Dua, Ternate City.

The head of the Ternate Basarnas, Muhammad Arafah, said that his party received the report immediately in coordination with the Ternate Lanal and the Dit Pol water Polda Malut to carry out search and rescue operations.

Until 13:10 WIT, Sunday, January 16, the Joint SAR Team was dispatched to the location using the KN SAR 237 Pandudewanata ship.

Reported by Antara, his party received a report from the Commander of Posal Basarnas Bacan, Aris, that the ship KM Imanuel on the Lata-Lata Port route, South Halmahera Regency to Tifure Island, Batang Dua, experienced an engine failure in the waters of Batan Dua Island, Ternate City and needed SAR assistance.

On January 16, 2022 at around 08.16 WIT, KM Imanuel 14 departed from Lata-lata Harbor to Tifure Island. After several hours of sailing, KM Imanuel 14, commanded by Nur K Labao, experienced an engine failure and was adrift in Batang Dua waters.

Previously, the Ternate BMKG weather forecaster Fahmi Bachdar when contacted separately confirmed that his party had issued recommendations for high wave potential in various waters such as Halmahera Island, Morotai Island, western waters of Halmahera and its surroundings.

According to him, the potential for waves reaches 2.5 meters to 4 meters in a number of North Maluku waters such as Batang Dua waters, Morotai Island, Loloda, Gebe, Obi and Sanana-Taliabu waters.

Small ship owners are asked not to go to sea, because such sea wave conditions will endanger safety while sailing.

He also appealed to the public to be alert and careful of the impacts such as floods, landslides, flash floods, fallen trees and slippery roads, as well as users of sea transportation services, fishermen and coastal communities are advised to be aware of high waves.

Meanwhile, the Ternate Class II Port Authority and Harbormaster Office have temporarily suspended inter-island shipping activities in North Maluku, following bad weather that hit this area in the last two days.

This was done to anticipate the occurrence of casualties and property at sea due to bad weather, KSOP is currently temporarily delaying the departure of ships between islands, the Ternate-Morotai, Ternate-Babang-Obi, Ternate-Sanana-Taliabu, Ternate-Batang Dua to Ternate-Ternate route. Manado and Ternate-Bitung.