{"id":61231,"date":"2025-05-28T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/vietnamese-sar-forces-rescue-10-crewmembers-after-bulker-sinks\/61231\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:10:09","slug":"vietnamese-sar-forces-rescue-10-crewmembers-after-bulker-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/vietnamese-sar-forces-rescue-10-crewmembers-after-bulker-sinks\/61231\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese SAR Forces Rescue 10 Crewmembers After Bulker Sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, a coal carrier flooded and sank off the coast of Vietnam&#039;s Son Duong port, forcing the crew to abandon ship quickly. In a remarkable large-scale operation spanning more than 12 hours, first responders found and&nbsp;rescued all 10 crewmembers from the water.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At about 2100 hours on Sunday night, the bulker <em>Cong Thanh 07<\/em> was under way at a position about six nautical miles off Son Duong when it began taking on water in rough seas. The vessel sank in about 30 meters of water. The crew abandoned ship&nbsp;and began to drift with the current.<\/p>\n<p>Seven vessels were mobilized to participate in the search, according to the Vietnam Maritime Administration. The first survivor was rescued by a fishing boat at a position 17 nautical miles southwest of the location of the sinking, six hours after the casualty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After this initial rescue, the national SAR coordination center updated the search area to a 30-nautical-mile strip extending southeast from the place where the first crewmember was found. At 1200 hours, the search vessel <em>SAR 631 <\/em>found and rescued six more individuals; good Samaritans found another three more, bringing the total to 10 survivors &#8211; the entire crew.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, a coal carrier flooded and sank off the coast of Vietnam&#039;s Son Duong port, forcing the crew to abandon ship quickly. In a remarkable large-scale operation spanning more than 12 hours, first responders found and&nbsp;rescued all 10 crewmembers from the water.&nbsp;&nbsp; At about 2100 hours on Sunday night, the bulker Cong Thanh 07 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[932,4973,1532,1535,5988,2990,4861],"class_list":["post-61231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bulker","tag-crewmembers","tag-forces","tag-rescue","tag-sar","tag-sinks","tag-vietnamese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/61232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}