Tuticorin: a well-coordinated mission to produce nine Indian crew members from a mechanical sailboat (MSV) which drowned 170 nautical miles (315km) from Tuticorin Beach in the early days of Wednesday.
The crew members were saved by the Salzburg MV MC Cyprus-flagged ship and taken to the Maldives, from where they would be sent home to India.
MSV ‘Annai Vennila Arockia Vennila’ departed from Tuticorin to Maldives with 287 tons of cargo like cement and vegetables on Saturday.
Arockiyasamy Edward, 49, From Tuticorin is a temporary master of Maria Antony Santhosh, 22, Seelan Williston, 25, Siran Arockiyasamy, 26, Milton Edward, 50, Vesenthi Esthove, 60, Nariahan Christopher, 63, 63, and Thomai Gnanam, 62 is the crew.
The ship was hit by a rough sea of ​​around 170 miles of sea from Tuticorin and 230 sea miles (426km) to Maldives.
Realizing the danger, the men lowered the burden of the ship, but was in vain.
Unable to sail through a round wind and big waves, they tried to return to Tuticorin on Tuesday when sea water entered the engine room and ship suffering from technical barriers.
Cannot operate the ship, men in trouble giving warnings to MSV owners in Tuticorin and Korea Coast Guard (ICG) Maritime Respcue Center (MRCC) in Chennai.
According to ICG, the crew gave a message on the depressed warning (DAT) transmitter that the ship flooded.
MRCC launched national search and rescue services and activating international safety nets for search and rescue operations that coordinate.
Two Norwegian trader ships-marked MV ‘SKS Mosel’ and MV ‘MCP Salzburg’ were identified as a potential search and rescue unit and diverted to Datum.