Seventeen sailors who were aboard a fishing vessel that sank in the Russian Arctic on Monday December 28 are missing. Two people, among the 19 contained in the crew, were saved. Rescue operations continue to find the other castaways. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations quoted by the TASS agency, this is the ship Onega based in Murmansk, which sank after freezing near the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Barents Sea. A ship is participating in search operations and three others are en route to the scene of the accident, according to the same source, who specifies that the cause of the sinking is “icing”.
According to another source interviewed by the TASS agency, the “bad” weather in the area of the sinking did not allow the use of aviation for rescue operations. Contacted by Agence France-Presse, the Ministry of Emergency Situations declined to comment immediately.
Precedents in the Barents Sea
In January 2018, a Russian fishing vessel with 21 people on board sank in the Sea of Japan, with no survivors being found after five days of search operations in freezing temperatures and high winds. In April 2015, the sinking of a Russian freezer trawler in the same region killed at least 56 people.
In the Barents Sea, 14 Russian officers were killed in July 2019 in the fire of their submarine, an accident whose circumstances had not been revealed by the authorities in the name of “state secrecy”.
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