A floating crane sank off the coast of Crimea: 3 sailors are missing
A floating crane sank 4 km from the coast of Crimea in the Livadia region: 3 sailors went missing. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reports this.
The signal about the tragedy came at 3:02.
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The floating crane belongs to Centrspas Rosmorrechport, Astrakhan. He carried out work at the seaport of the International Children's Center "Artek". When moving from the village. Gurzuf in the city of Sevastopol leaked, which caused it to flood.
It was towed to Sevastopol by the tugboat "Mercury" and "Derzkiy". At that moment, there was a crew of 8 people on board the floating crane, all of them were residents of Novorossiysk. The injured 5 people were lifted onto the tugboat “Derzkiy”.
The GIMS boat of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia “Leader 3” of Yalta was immediately sent to the scene of the incident, as well as to search for the 11 missing crew members, as well as the MI-8 helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia was sent to carry out searches from the air.
It is worth noting that the search is complicated by weather conditions - the sea state is up to 4 points. Employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Crimea organized patrols of the coastline of the village of Livadia.
The rescued 5 crew members are on the tugboat “Daring”, which will take them to Balaklava Bay, where emergency medical personnel, as well as psychologists from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, are waiting for the victims to provide first psychological aid.
At the moment, a search is underway for 3 crew members - a senior mechanic, an electrician and a crane operator. At 8:40 a.m., the “Leader 11” boat of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations found separate objects from a floating crane, as well as a life jacket and a life buoy, in the search area.
The search and rescue operation continues.
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