Marine

2.10, shipwrecked barge, fatalities

Russia: the bodies of two more crew members of shipwrecked general cargo vessel Kvarts were found, bringing the total death toll to four. The bodies of the sailors were discovered on the coastline of a village in Lyuga. According to preliminary information, all the men died of hypothermia. One more crew member was still missing. The self-propelled barge Kvarts , carrying two 40-foot containers with seafood, that went missing in the Sea of Okhotsk, was spotted from a helicopter in shallow waters 30 kilometres north-east of the Rybnovsk settlement on the Sakhalin Island. The barge was half sunken and there were no people on board or around it. The helicopter pilot transmitted the vessel’s coordinates to rescue groups.