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Last bid to track missing crew

In a last bid to track down their relatives, the four families of the missing Australian and New Zealand crew members of the 'Gulf Livestock 1' have clubbed together to create a $67,000 reward for anyone who discovers or unearths information leading directly to the discovery of any or all of the missing 40 crewmen, whether alive or deceased, from the sunken ship. Any information should be relayed to Simone Wearne who can be reached at the telephone number: +819010717141. Extensive search and rescue missions, initially led by the Japanese Coast Guard and latterly funded by crowdsourcing, have unearthed debris linked to the ship washed up on islands in the far south of Japan. Families were holding out hope that a number of liferafts are still not accounted for in the search operations. In the Philippines, meanwhile, where the other 36 missing crew hailed from, Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to pressure the owners of the cattle ship to swiftly facilitate the search for the missing crew with the purpose of recovering any remains that may still be within the wreck of the ship. A spokesperson for Gulf Navigation said the company would not help finance any further search and rescue efforts for the missing crew. The sunken ship had a chequered past. 25 port state control were listed with deficiencies in 2019 and 2020 alone, including a number relating to the main engine. In July 2019 the ship drifted for a day undergoing repairs following an engine failure.

Life raft remains found on uninhabited island

Images taken during the two-week search for the crew of the 'Gulf Livestock 1' have given hope to friends and families of the crew members still missing. An update posted on Oct 6 on the GoFundMe page set up to raise money to fund the search said the images could show signs of life on islands off the south coast of Japan. The ship sank during a typhoon on Sep 2. Since then search and rescue operations have been carried out looking for any survivors. One of the new images shows what might be a canopy from a Viking life raft, which was the same used aboard the 'Gulf Livestock 1'. The supposed canopy was spotted by a helicopter on Kuchinoshima, off the southwest coast of Japan, approximately 260 km from the last known location of the ship. On the island of Gajajima, an uninhabited island 35 km away from Kuchinoshima, a life ring and a blue boot was spotted on the same day. Around the same area as the islands, there have been sightings of dead cows and ship debris. The update explained these findings are inline with the drift particle maps marine experts put together following the ship capsizing, leaving friends and families of the remaining crew extremely hopeful that more signs of the Gulf Livestock 1 and the whereabouts of its missing crew can be found. There were still four life rafts and one lifeboat from the ship which have been unaccounted for. Harry Morrison and Elliot O'Hara, best friends of an Australian man on board the 'Gulf Livestock 1', Will Mainprize, set up the GoFundMe, and have worked with friends and family of the remaining Australian and New Zealand crew to fund the search and rescue operations. The GoFundMe has raised over $126,000 and any future donations will go to the search and rescue aircraft to search the remaining Tokara Island group and the islands south of Amami, The Tokara Islands are a chain of 12 islands off Japan, many are uninhibited, though there are more regions worth searching. GoFundMe would like to start searching the Izu Island group, south of Tokyo. All of which feature as possibilities by our marine experts & drift maps. 36 Filipinos, two New Zealanders and two Australians - Queensland vet Lukas Orda and NSW man Will Mainprize - remained missing to date. Satellite searches continued to be conducted, while another aircraft search will be carried out during the weekend of Oct 10/11. Both the Australian and New Zealand governments have previously said they were in ongoing discussions with Japanese authorities regarding the search and Japan's Coast Guard were patrolling the area. Report with photos: https://au.news.yahoo.com/search-team-makes-shocking-find-on-island-after-ship-vanishes-043213684.html

Chinese Coastguard in vain searched for missing crew

Chinese authorities on Sep 24 said its Coastguard was unable to locate any of the missing crew members of the 'Gulf Livestock 1'. The China Coast Guard has conducted operations in relevant waters to search for the 36 missing members of the vessel on Sep 19 and 20, but found no trace of missing crew members. The search was conducted at the request of the Department of Labor and Employment. So far, two survivors and one fatality, all three of whom are Filipinos, have been confirmed through the Japanese Coast Guard. On Sep 10 the Japanese Coast Guard "decided to transition from full-time search operations for the crew to its usual patrol arrangements as they have found no trace of the ship sinceSep 5. Later the same day, the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines issued a statement saying that search and rescue operations were ongoing.