Helicopter deployed in search for missing fishermen drifting at sea
The Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Response and Search and Rescue said it will dispatch a helicopter to assist in the search for missing fishermen on request of Binh Thuan province.
A helicopter of the Vietnam People’s Navy under the Ministry of Defense will be deployed on July 20 morning to join the search for fishermen on board a fishing boat in distress at sea, said Major General Pham Van Ty, deputy chief of the Office of the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Response and Search and Rescue.
Fishing boat Bth 97478 TS with 15 fishermen on board lost contact on July 10 on the way back from a fishing ground near the DK1 Platform of the Truong Sa archipelago.
Four of the fishermen were rescued on July 19 by fishing vessel BD96935 TS when they were on a coracle drifting out to sea.
They said there had been seven people altogether on the coracle, but three had died before they were rescued.
The Binh Thuan administration on July 19 evening sent an urgent dispatch to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Response and Search and Rescue, requesting to send a helicopter to search around the area where the four fishermen were found.
