Overview
- A rescue team departed Korsakov for Nevelsk to begin evacuating the Chinese crew of the stranded vessel.
- The Sakhalin branch of the Maritime Rescue Service will conduct the operation using three units.
- The 20 sailors, all Chinese nationals, had remained aboard since February and lost electrical power in a recent outage.
- The ship grounded during a storm on February 8 about two kilometers south of Nevelsk and now rests on rocks roughly 200 meters from shore.
- Authorities report that part of the fuel was pumped off and the remainder used for auxiliary systems, preventing any oil spill to date.