Overview
- The overturned 9-ton Dai-hachi Michitake Maru was found with its hull up about 115 kilometers south of Miyako Island during a morning overflight.
- A nearby fishing boat intercepted a radio call around 4 a.m. reporting the vessel was about to sink and relayed it through the Prefectural Fisheries Radio Association.
- The missing are captain Kohei Tamaki, 38, and Indonesian crewmember Muhammad Iqbal, 21, according to the coast guard.
- The 11th Regional Coast Guard is searching with three patrol vessels and two aircraft.
- Conditions at the site were rough, with wind near 11 m/s, two-meter waves and a four-meter swell, and the boat had departed Ishigaki on November 30 for sword-squid fishing.