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VLOC sinks in the South Atlantic
A very large ore carrier (VLOC) belonging to South Korea’s Polaris Shipping is believed to have sunk off Uruguay.
Crew – made up of 16 Filipinos and eight Koreans – sent urgent messages to Polaris’s headquarters on Friday evening as the giant ship, Stellar Daisy, took on water. It was heading from Brazil to China when calamity struck and is thought to have capsized and sunk very quickly after the distress messages were sent.
Local coast guard officials have since relayed that lifeboats have been found in the vicinity, and at least two seafarers are believed to have survived. Splash will bring more on this breaking story as we get it.
My cousin Jomari Wite Cabrahan
is the lucky one of the survivor
from Philippines.
wonderful blessing
GOD is so good
Wonderful for your cousin, that really is a miracle.
Seems there were two survivors, as far as I’ve heard (not confirmed) an Astra Shipmanagement (Koropoulis – offshoot of Martinos clan) bulk carrier called the Elpida, 2001 built 73k dwt was involved in the rescue operation
Has your cousin been able to say anything about how this tragic incident happened? Feel free to email me at sam@asiashippingmedia.com
I have heard that her sister ship Stellar Unicorn is currently off Cape Town with a crack in her hull?
I recall two cases happened long time ago with similar VLOC’s: m/v SILVIA L.OSSA and OMNIUM MARINER both splitted in two parts and sunk at terrorific Bermuda Triangle late in the ’70s. Both were total losses and no survivors at all!!