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Bulk Jupiter owner confirms ship sank off Vietnam coast (crew list included)

Bulk Jupiter owner confirms ship sank off Vietnam coast (crew list included)

Saturday, January 03, 2015, 14:55 GMT+7

The cargo ship Bulk Jupiter with an all-Filipino crew has capsized and sunk off the Vietnamese coast, the ocean transport firm that owns the vessel confirmed on its website without citing the date.

>> Vietnam saves 1, recovers 2 bodies of crew aboard wrecked Bahamas-flagged Bulk Jupiter

The Bahamas-flagged ship departed from Kuantan (Malaysia) on December 30 at around 20:00 hours local time and is now confirmed as having “capsized and [sunk] about 150 NM off the Vietnamese coast,” Gearbulk Holding Limited, which specializes in conventional bulk, said in a statement posted on its website.

The ship was carrying 46,400 metric tons of bauxite in bulk, stowed in all five of its cargo holds, according to the Bermuda-based company.

All of the 19 crew members on board the ship come from the Philippines, according to a crew list obtained by Tuoi Tre News. (http://tuoitrenews.vn/crew-list)

One has been saved and two are now confirmed dead, the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (Vietnam MRCC) said, adding it may have sunk on Friday.

“Repeated attempts to contact the vessel on all communication channels were unsuccessful,” Gearbulk said.

The firm added the Japanese Coast Guard had immediately initiated search and rescue operations after receiving the distress alert from the Bulk Jupiter.

Vietnamese vessel SAR 413 is guiding Liberia’s ZIM ASIA, Oman’s tugboat OLNG Muttrah, Singapore’s tugboat Kota Nekad, and Sea Land Meteor of China’s Hong Kong in the search for the Bulk Jupiter and the 16 missing sailors.

At 2:10 pm on Friday afternoon, the OLNG Muttrah saved one sailor and found a body drifting at sea. The rescued person is the cook and the body has been identified as the Bulk Jupiter captain.

About 30 minutes later, the Kota Nekad reported it had found a corpse confirmed to be a crew member.

“We will use this opportunity to thank everyone involved for their help and support in this difficult situation. Our thoughts are with the crew and their families,” Gearbulk said.

The Bulk Jupiter was thought to have wrecked as it has yet to be found after the Vietnamese rescue force received SOS messages from the vessel at 7:00 am on Friday, when it was about 150 nautical miles off the southern Vietnamese city of Vung Tau, the Vietnam MRCC said.

After receiving the emergency signals, the Vietnam MRCC issued a maritime notice asking for help from vessels nearby and sent the SAR 413 to the scene to begin rescue activities, which were later joined by the above foreign ships.

The Vietnam National Committee for Search and Rescue said it has proposed that the Defense Ministry dispatch the HQ608 – a naval ship – to the site to support the SAR 413 in the ongoing search.

Meanwhile, the Vietnam MRCC said on Friday night that the owner of the Bulk Jupiter will send a representative from Singapore to Vietnam to coordinate with it in the ongoing search efforts.

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