16 Crew Missing from Taiwanese Longliner Capsized During Cyclone Freddy
By Vel Moonien in Mauritius, On Sunday, February 19th, a 98-ton Taiwanese-flagged longliner named Lien Sheng Fa lost radio contact with Taipei while cruising in international waters in the Indian Ocean, 215 nautical miles from Rodrigues Island – …
By Vel Moonien in Mauritius, On Sunday, February 19th, a 98-ton Taiwanese-flagged longliner named Lien Sheng Fa lost radio contact with Taipei while cruising in international waters in the Indian Ocean, 215 nautical miles from Rodrigues Island – a dependency of Mauritius Island. At the time, intense tropical cyclone Freddy was approaching, with gusts estimated at 280 km/h near its eye. The Lien Sheng Fa was carrying 16 crew members, including a Taiwanese captain and 15 Indonesians, on a fishing campaign in the north of the Indian Ocean. Late in the evening of Thursday, February 23rd, Taiwanese authorities contacted the...