UPDATED. The coast guard finds a second survivor on Friday afternoon, September 4, a 30-year-old Filipino spotted in a life raft several kilometers from Kodakarajima.
Japanese authorities racing to find dozens of missing sailors from a cargo ship that sank in a typhoon found a second survivor on Friday, September 4, as another, much more powerful storm drew near.
But the coast guard said they found a second survivor on Friday afternoon, a 30-year-old Filipino who was spotted in a life raft several kilometers from Kodakarajima, a remote island in southwestern Japan. He said one of the boat's engines had stalled and the vessel was overturned by a powerful wave before eventually sinking.Dramatic footage of Wednesday's rescue showed the man bobbing in the open ocean in an orange lift jacket and rescuers battling violent waves to pull him on to their boat with a rope.
Captain Dante Addug's sister told Agence France-Presse that he had been in touch with his girlfriend shortly before the boat sank.
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