Cargo boat with 10 Turkish organisation sinks off Istanbul
The coastguard pronounced a submarine was also requested to assistance hunt for a blank crew.PHOTO: AFP
ANKARA: A load vessel sank in a Black Sea off Istanbul on Wednesday and a hunt and rescue operation is underway for a 10 Turkish organisation members, a coastguard said.
The vessel sent a trouble vigilance early on Wednesday, a coastguard authority pronounced in a statement.
An operation was immediately launched to find a 10 Turkish crew.
It pronounced that a vessel sank to a abyss of 88 metres (288 feet) underwater some 7 miles from a shore.
Lifeboats, lifejackets and other rigging believed to go to a stricken vessel were found on a surface.
Dogan news agency pronounced a apparatus carried a name of a vessel “Bilal Bal”.
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The coastguard pronounced a submarine was also requested to assistance hunt for a blank crew.
The vessel left from a pier in a northwestern range of Bursa on Friday, Hurriyet daily reported.
Dogan pronounced a vessel belonged to an Istanbul-based association called Demsa Denizcilik. Reports pronounced that it was carrying iron powder.
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