VietNamNet Bridge – Sailor Le Quang Ruc provided the local media with pictures of the Antarctic shipwreck taken by the rescue team in early December. three Vietnamese sailors died in the accident.

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The Korean fishing boat, No. 1 Insung, sank off Antarctica on December 13, with 42 sailors on board, including ten Vietnamese. Twenty sailors were rescued, five were confirmed dead (one Vietnamese) and 17 were missing (two Vietnamese).

The seven Vietnamese survivors arrived home on December 27.

Sailor Le Quang Ruc gave the local media some pictures which captured terrifying moments during the sinking of the ship, taken by rescue workers.

The rescue ship defines the co-ordinates.

The rescue ship arrived at the site.

Three sailors escape death thanks to three tree trunks.

From the right, Vietnamese sailor Tran Dinh Khanh, Vietnamese sailor

Nguyen Mau Hien and an Indonesian sailor.

They swim to a big life buoy and are rescued.

After the ship sank, many lifebuoy andplastic cans were floating

but as the water was too cold, many exhausted sailors couldn’t reach them.

The ship sank in the frozen Antarctic sea.

Source: Dan Viet