Divers began operations on Monday to salvage a tourist boat that sank off Hokkaido leaving 14 dead and 12 people missing, exactly one month after the incident occurred. Nippon Salvage Co, a company hired by the Japanese coast guard, began the operations to raise the 19-ton Kazu I from around…
The vessel is on the seabed a depth of around 120 meters. Fourteen of the 26 people on board have been discovered and confirmed dead, while 12 people remain missing.
Preparatory work to salvage a tourist boat that sank off Hokkaido last month, leaving 14 dead and 12 people still missing, started Saturday morning. The raising of the 19-ton Kazu I will now take place early next week. The boat, which currently sits on the seabed some 120 meters below…