The coast guard exclaimed that they found another dead body from a collision in western Japan on Thursday March 6. The body was of a Filipino skipper of the sunken ship, which is identified as Tomasniri D. Demandaco Jr. His dead body was pulled in by a fishing boat in its trawl net, the coast guard said.
It was Wednesday March 5 when three vessels, Gold Leader, Daigo Eisei Maru, and Ocean Phoenix, collided in the Akashi Strait, part of Japan’s Inland Sea. As a result the 1,466-tonne Belize-registered M/V Gold Leader, a cargo ship with nine Filipino crew on board, sank.
Philippine Foreign Affairs spokesman Claro Cristobal said that search and rescue operations continue for the two Filipino sailors who remain missing. He explained that the Japanese Coast Guard has helped with four aircraft and 16 vessels for the operations. According to him two of the five rescued Filipino seamen are now in stable condition, the three others remain under intensive care.
Another Filipino crew member was rescued on Wednesday but later died in a nearby hospital. There was no casualty on the other two ships, an oil tanker and a small boat.
