The SAR Team Is Still Looking For 3 Fishermen KM Sweet Who Drowned In The Banda Sea

The SAR team is still looking for eight. crew of the fishing boat KM. Sweet which sank in the waters of the Banda Sea since Monday, (11/3). ANTARA/HO-Basarnas Ambon

The joint SAR team is still looking for three of the eight fishermen from Banda, Central Maluku Regency, Maluku who went missing when the fishing boat KM. Sweet they used sank in Banda Sea waters since Monday (11/3).

"During the follow-up SAR operation on Wednesday (14/3), five KM crews were found. Sweet is safe," said Ambon Basarnas Head Muhammad Arif Anwar in Ambon, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, March 14.

The five crew of the fishing vessels are Rusdi (23), Hamid Ely (51), Kelvin Tuhumena, Naril Wolio, and Nadil Tomia.

The five fishing crews were initially found safe on Wednesday, (13/3) by crew of the Yondri 03 fishing boat in the Banda Sea at a distance of about 35 Nautical Mil from the Eastern Seram (SBT) area.

However, when the ship's position was about 10 NM from the waters of the United States (Ambon Island), the ship was hit by waves causing damage to the hull until it finally sank.

Meanwhile, three people whose fate is not yet known and are still being searched by the joint SAR team, namely Arsywandy Syahwal (22), a one-year-old boy named Hasan Nur Tualepe, and Imanuel Kresio Ririhena.

Using RBB Basarnas Ambon, the joint SAR team consisting of Basarnas, Polairud Polda Maluku, and the victim's family resumed the search for eight KM crew members. Sweet, which is still missing in the waters of the Banda Sea.

Several coordinate points were also passed by the joint SAR team to carry out victim search operations.

Basarnas Ambon also coordinated with SROP Ambon to attach information about this accident to ships crossing around the waters of the Banda Sea.

KM. Sweet departed from Banda Island Neira to Tantui Fisheries Pier, Ambon City.