US rescuers save four men trapped inside capsized cargo ship

A crew member of the cargo ship Golden Ray as he is helped off the capsized ship. Image: AP/PA Images A crew member of the cargo ship Golden Ray as he is helped off the capsized ship. Image: AP/PA Images COAST GUARD RESCUERS pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship yesterday, drilling into the hull’s steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a Georgia port.

Three of the South Korean crew members came out in the mid-afternoon. The fourth man, who was trapped in a separate compartment, emerged three hours later. The presidential Blue House said Moon also sent a letter to US Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz and praised the “courage and dedication” of Coast Guard members involved in the rescue.In the hours immediately after the accident, the Coast Guard lifted 20 crew members into helicopters before determining that smoke and flames and unstable cargo made it too risky to venture further inside the vessel.That left responders looking for the remaining four crew members.

Responders set up a tent on the hull and began drilling additional holes, eventually making an opening large enough to insert a ladder and help the men climb out.The fourth rescue was a greater challenge. That crewman was behind glass in a separate engineering compartment on another deck, Reed said. The ship then departed the dock in Brunswick shortly after midnight and was underway only 23 minutes before its movement stopped in the mouth of the harbor where it capsized, according to satellite data recorded by Marine Traffic.

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