Belgian Sailors Save Two from Raft in Black Sea
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| 'Tolstoy in its last moments' . |
Nikolay Apostolov, executive director of the Executive Maritime Administration Agency said that the yacht had apparently contacted Turkish authorities by telephone as they didn't have a radio on board.
The Belgian yacht, Mirage, which effected the rescue had departed from the town of Tsarevo on September 25, heading for Istanbul.
The two Ukrainian seamen, Andrey Krizhenovski and Denis Ahrameev, sent a text message from their life raft to a family member late on Saturday but Bulgarian rescuers failed to find them all day on Sunday, said Mr Apostolov. They survived after the Tolstoy split in two and sank rapidly near the Bulgarian coastline.
No word has been heard of any other surviving crew of the complement of nine, in spite of seven Bulgarian ships and a helicopter searching the area where the ship sank.
by BW Media
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