big ship crashed on Hong Kong waters,Sunday
totally 18 Ukrainian sailors missing
HONG KONG(AP) - Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat after it collided with a cargo ship in Hong Kong waters, a marine official said Sunday.
Director of Marine Dept. Roger Tupper said the sailors were trapped in the hull of the ship and could still be alive if they found an air pocket inside their vessel. However, he said rescue divers had knocked on the boat and did not hear the sailors signal back.
The Ukrainian tugboat Neftegaz, which was on its way to an oil field south of Hong Kong, collided with Chinese-registered cargo ship Yao Hai late Saturday in waters northwest of Hong Kong's outlying Lantau island, Tupper said.
He said six Ukrainians and a Chinese citizen were rescued from the tugboat and efforts were continuing to find the others.
Rescuers were trying to move the 80-meter-long (264-foot-long) Ukrainian boat, currently lying upside down at a depth of 35 meters (115 feet), to shallower waters to ease rescue efforts, Tupper said.
He said that the cause of the accident was not yet known and that weather conditions were "reasonable" at the time it occurred. Neither vessel was overloaded, he said.
All the crew members aboard the Chinese cargo ship were rescued, Tupper said. It was not immediately clear what the status of the ship itself was, how many crew members were on board it or how big the vessel was.
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