8 Passengers Of The Bahana Putra Ship That Sank In The Waters Of Ternate City Successfully Evacuated, Captains And Chefs Still Wanted

Ternate Basarnas personnel are on standby to carry out a search operation for two passengers on the LCT Bahana Putra/ANTARA ship

TERNATE - The Ternate Basarnas Search and Rescue Office received a report that a 10-person LCT Bahana Putra ship sank in the waters of Batang Dua Island, Ternate City. "We received information from Basarnas Manado that one ship with a passenger of 10 people sank in the waters of Batan Dua Island, Ternate City, the captain and a cooking judge were declared missing," said Head of Basarnas Ternate Fathur Rahman when contacted, Antara, Monday, June 19. Reports of the sinking ship were received today at around 09.31 Wit. Fathur stated, based on the report on the identity of the LCT Bahana Putra GT 302, with 10 passengers on the Manokwari route to Bitung, North Sulawesi passing through the waters of Batang Dua Island, Ternate City. He said the identities of the two victims who were declared missing were Buchari Sahafin as captain (66 years) and Yokzafil Novsan as cook (23 years). Fathur Rahman stated, the chronology of the accident of the LCT Bahana Putra ship sinking in 35 NM north of Mayau Batang Dua Island on June 17, 2023, Pkl.14.00 WIT. Eight crew members have been evacuated by KM Situ to North Doi Halmahera Island and two people have not been found, including the captain of the ship. According to him, after receiving the incident report. Basarnas Ternate coordinated and received information from the ship company that eight survivors had been picked up by the Lionel Makmur 88 ship on Doi Halmahera Island north. At 10.30 WIT, the Ternate Basarnas Rescue Team was prepared to move to LKP to carry out a search for 2 missing victims using the KN SAR 237 Pandudewanata.

However, due to the currently deteriorating weather conditions, the rescue stand by SAR operation team is waiting for the weather conditions to improve to immediately move towards LKP with the LKP Coordinator. 1°55'40.00"N / 126°23'30.00"E. The distance from Ternate Basarnas to LKP 90 NM with Radian 322° Estimation arrives at the scene of the incident about 6 hours 25 minutes.