SAR Team Searches For Crew Members From Liberia Who Fall In Ternate Waters

ANTARA/Abdul Fatah (Abdul Fatah)

TERNATE - The Search and Rescue Office of the Ternate Basarnas continues to search for one of the crew members (ABK) of the Liberian-flagged Sabrina Fair which crashed in Batang Dua Island, Ternate City, North Maluku (Malut), on Thursday (18/5), but to no avail.

"After receiving the information, we immediately coordinated with the relevant agencies, then dispatched personnel involving members of the Lanal Ternate and Polairud Polda Malut to the location using the Pandu Dewata ship to search for victims," said Head of the Ternate Basarnas Fathur Rahman in Ternate as reported by ANTARA, Saturday, May 20.

The Liberian-flagged Sabrina Fair sailed from Japan to Australia via the North Maluku region, but it was reported that one of the crew members allegedly crashed while in the waters of Batang Dua Island, Ternate City.

However, as of Friday (19/5) at around 17.00 WIT, the search had not yielded any results.

He said the search continued today, which is the third day and the joint SAR team will be focused on the location where the victim allegedly fell.

"There are no signs of any victims being found, so our efforts to carry out searches as far as approximately 100 Nauticale miles from the suspected point of falling victim," said Fathur.

He hopes that the weather in the waters will be good, so that it can make it easier for the joint SAR team to search for victims and victims.

The Ternate Search and Rescue Office received information through the Basarnas Command Center of a crew member of a Liberian-flagged foreign cargo ship, Sabrina Fair, fell in the waters of Batan Dua Island, Ternate City, North Maluku.

Previously, the chronology of the incident received, on Thursday (18/5) at around 17.33 WIT, a crew member (not yet identified), the Liberian-flagged Sabrina Fair ship was reported missing in the waters of Batang Dua Island.

According to Fathur Rahman, one of the crew members of the Liberian-flagged ship fell in Batang Dua waters at coordinates allegedly 1 deg54'0.00"N / 126 deg40'0.00"E with a distance of 83.18 NM and Radian 331.34$ from the Ternate Basarnas Office.