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Coast guard rescues three The Japan Coast Guard rescued three people, including a television cameraman, as they were drifting on a raft on Feb. 12 off Miyazaki Prefecture after their tuna fishing boat went missing on Feb. 9. Yukihiro Koresawa, the 48-year-old captain of the 9.1-ton Yukiyoshi Maru, told the coast guard his vessel had been hit "by a large white ship some 74 km southeast of Tanegashima Island at around 10 a.m. on Feb. 9, and turned over." A patrol boat dispatched by the 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in neighboring Kagoshima Prefecture rescued the three after a search helicopter spotted them waving on the raft about 185 km east-southeast of Cape Toi in Miyazaki earlier on Feb. 12, the coast guard said.
The Japan Times Weekly: Feb. 17, 2007 |
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