Eco-Czar

Three of 26 fishermen who had been aboard two boats that sank in the night of Oct 27, 2020, in Storm Molave have been rescued by the crew of the 'Fortune Iris'. They belonged to a crew of 14 on a fishing boat owned by Vo Ngoc Do of Hoai Nhon Town in the Binh Dinh Province that got caught in rough seas off the central Khanh Hoa Province. In the evening, Do, also captain of his boat, sailed to Nha Trang to take shelter as Storm Molave, the most powerful to hit Vietnam in the last 20 years, approached the central coast. However, the boat sank more than 190 miles from the coast. Around two hours before that tragedy, another fishing boat from Binh Dinh also sank en route to shelter, and its 12-member crew were still listed as missing. The captain of the 'Fortune Iris' called the Nha Trang Coastal Radio Station in Khanh Hoa in the night of Oct 29 to inform his ship had rescued the trio. Le Minh Don, 20, Phan Quoc Quy, 35, and Vo Van Hoai, 35, were reported to be in stable health condition despite spending three days stranded at sea. They told that of the 14 on their boat, two died right after it sank while they did not know about the rest. Local authorities were working with the Hong Kong vessel to receive the three. Two ships and a hydroplane of the Vietnamese Navy have been deployed to search for the 23 missing men.