Seafarer dies as South Korean tanker capsizes

A seafarer on a South Korean-owned chemical tanker, Kelsey 2, died after the ship sank off Kinmen, Taiwan, on 15 October, after suffering water ingress.

All 20 seafarers had abandoned the 2002-built 8,424 dwt Kelsey 2 and jumped into water when the ship began sinking, but not before sending a distress signal.

The Taiwan Coast Guard and the China Coast Guard evacuated all of them on their helicopters, but one seafarer, a Myanmar national, fell unconscious and was pronounced dead on arrival at a...

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