Sixteen missing after car carrier, bulker collide
Sixteen seafarers were missing after a collision last week between the South Korean flagged, 6,934 dwt bulker Orchid Pia and the Panama-registered, 4,912 dwt car carrier Cygnus Ace near Izu Oshima, about 120 km south of Tokyo.
All those missing, comprising nine Indonesians and seven South Koreans, were onboard the 1988- built Orchid Pia , which is understood to have sunk after the collision.
The Japan Coast Guard said five ships and three helicopters were scrambled...
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