Search for missing sailors of sunken ship in Russia's Far East continues on land
The Russian Emergencies Ministry said the weather still does not allow aviation to work around the shipwreck site
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 13. /TASS/. A cyclone in the Russian Far Eastern Kamchatka Krai will not allow to continue the search operation for three missing crewmembers from the sunken Anatoly Krashennikov ship in the sea and from air, but search will continue on land, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's main regional department told TASS on Tuesday.
"The weather still does not allow aviation to work around the shipwreck site, there are big waves in the sea. That's why the search operation will continue only on land today. Specialists from the Kronotsky Nature Reserve will work on land and will try to inspect territory around Cape Kambalny," the ministry said.
On November 9, a private sailing scow sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk with 13 people on board. Ten people were saved by a nearby ship.
According to the Russian maritime shipping register, the sunken ship was registered in the Far Eastern city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The ship was transporting 280 tonnes of building materials and equipment to the settlement of Palana in the north of Kamchatka.