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Taiwanese fishing boat with 49 crew missing in the South Atlantic
A Taiwanese fishing boat that has gone missing in waters off southeastern Argentina could have lost power, Fisheries Agency Deputy Director-General Huang Hung-yan said this weekend, about a week after the vessel was reported missing. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI am sure that if the RN or any British vessels are in the vicinity, they will assist.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 07:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, sadly, I have little faith in the Argentine Navy. Surely they are a risk unto themselves, and will probably require international help should they leave harbour. Just adding to the problem, I guess.
Meanwhile, we should all hope for the best for those 'lost at sea', and hope for their safe return.
Not a pleasant job, one would imagine.
I wish them all the best that they are rescued.
“Taking on water” and last heard from 12 days ago.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Does not sound good.
Sounds like a search job for the RAF C130 backed up by the big A330 tanker, but why did the vessel company wait 10 days after a message saying ship was “taking on water”??
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Mar 09th, 2015 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0indeed!
However, if, and when, they are hopefully rescued, I am sure they will not be worrying about any so-called, bullshit 'sovreignity' claims!.
I am sure they will just be glad to be alive.
Can any posters tell me what the Argentines are doing to assist these folk?
Think there is a problem with published location though - Off SE Argentina - and 17o0 miles from Falklands?
Mar 09th, 2015 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Does not make sense and less than 400 miles between us!
Something does not add up.
The Ship owners need to be a bit more accurate
Sad. Sounds like those boys are lost.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4. 'Can any posters tell me what the Argentines are doing to assist these folk?' According to research, NOTHING. Is anybody surprised? Argieland has neither naval or air resources capable of a search. It would have considerable difficult mounting a search for a pedallo 50 yards offshore.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps if the 'politicians', cops and so forth didn't spend so much time thieving? How many 'walls' and 'roofs' in the villas miserias are made from aircraft wing parts?
Hope they're found safe and sound. Can't think of a worse fate than being lost at sea.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To whom did the owner of the ship pay for the license?....FI?...if so it's your duty guys...it's your responsability.....don't ask Argentina for “cooperation”...LOOK FOR THEM !!!!...and good luck. I really wish you can find them.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 09 pgerman
Mar 09th, 2015 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You really are an appalling excuse for a human being. This boat was last heard of 1700 miles from the Falklands on the high seas, for which you don't need a license. But I bet the Falklands and the UK will step up to the mark with any resources at their disposal. Anybody with any amount of human decency would.
@9 Britain never asked Argentina for assistance, read the article again. Anyway why wouldn't Argentina assist, this is an international rescue effort, petty differences should be put aside in order to find this ship.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trust the argie idiot from Canada to stick his big nose in.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you noticed how you can always spot an old argie? His (and sometime hers) nose looks like the bulbous bow on a giant ship - the part that is constantly under water and is only seem when the ship is unloaded.
Using the ridiculous parameters gives of course TWO answers, both of which have a common easterning point at 10 deg W.
Centred on the tip of SE argieland the ship is just off Antarctica (grazing): centred from the Falklands, the ship will miss Antarctica and if it is not moved from a true easterning course will go around the world until it hits Graham Land.
This was a real problem for dis-masted wooden sailing ships: round and round the bottom of the world they would go!
Bit of a worry the taking in of water unless they can stop it or have donkey engine pumps that can be fitted up somehow.
Best of luck to them all.
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Mar 09th, 2015 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People lost and in distress are the responsibility of every human being that is able to help....
@10, 11, 12 and 13
Mar 09th, 2015 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anybody with any amount of human decency would?.
http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=4720
Falklands Denies Cruise Ship Due to Norovirus:
diplomatic tension between Britain and Argentina rises once again over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, eyebrows are being raised as to why Princess Cruises' Star Princess was denied entry to the islands' capital, Port Stanley, last Saturday.
The official explanation is that a small percentage of the passengers had been struck with norovirus, the winter vomiting bug.
A statement on the Falkland Islands government website claimed: “An outbreak in the Falkland Islands would put enormous pressure on our limited medical resources, and jeopardise other scheduled cruise visits.”
But Princess Cruises does not accept this and said in a media statement: “This unprecedented decision by local government officials was made, we believe erroneously, because of the number of cases of gastrointestinal illness onboard. During this cruise a total of 64 passengers (2.48% of 2,584) and 10 crew members (0.94% of 1,068) have reported ill to the medical center. Currently there are 20 people aboard the ship who are symptomatic. Despite the low number of cases which have not yet reached the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) 3% definition of an outbreak, we have not been able to convince the local Chief Medical Officer that the decision is unwarranted.”
It seems that you have bad memory......another thing that put you closer to peronists.....
@14 What? That is in no way related, that ship was turned away due to the norovirus, not because of the nationalities on board. To say otherwise is retarded, that article is pure Argentine propaganda, and you ate it up like the idiot you are. The Chief Medical officer at the time made the call to deny the ship, perhaps in hindsight it was an unnecessary decision, anyway it's not like the vessel was any immediate danger or was put in danger by that decision.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what was your point? That you are an indoctrinated idiot? Because you made that very clear.
Go away and let the adults talk you indoctrinated moron.
HMS Dragon adds her ships badge to the dock wall in Simon’s Town naval base, South Africa
Mar 09th, 2015 - 08:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0perhaps they can help.
@15 brianF.I Are you from “La Campora”?...you write like one of them....
Mar 09th, 2015 - 08:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'don't ask Argentina for “cooperation”'
This takes infantile petulance to a new level.
@17 Are you an indoctrinated Argentine? You write like one of them
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I tried to find it's approx. position on Google Earth by running an arc 1700N.Miles from the Falklands from due south to due east.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This gave a position somewhere 55° 23' S / 10° 14' E and 70° 15' S / 10° 57'E
Right in the middle of nowhere ! Way out the range of any land based search aircraft. It looks as if a ship search is their only hope.
17 pgerman
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you even know what norovirus is? The people on board that ship with the virus weren't asking for help from the Falklands. They weren't even planning to come ashore. The decision was made in order to stop this highly infectious bug from spreading. If they'd needed hospital treatment, they would have got it. They didn't.
You appear to be equating drowning at sea with an attack of the spews.
Typical Argentine, using death and misfortunes as a propaganda tool.
Mar 10th, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0from what port or ship did the boat left?
Mar 12th, 2015 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0where was registered that ship?
and where is nowadays??
where was it last seen???
Malen
Mar 12th, 2015 - 05:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you read the article - it was 1700km East of the Falklands.
@ 24 Troy Tempest
Mar 12th, 2015 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“A Taiwanese fishing boat that has gone missing in waters off southeastern Argentina”
AND:
”1,700 nautical miles (3,148.4km) from the Falkland Islands when it last contacted its company at 3am that day ”
I took it that it was in a sector due east to southeast of the Falklands, so that's a graze of Antarctica to the middle-ish of the South Atlantic: so they are stuffed.
Thanks for the correction ChrisR -I suppose I should have paid more attention, myself.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Somehow, it is the fault of the FI though
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