Martin Antonenko
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Drowned helplessly ...
Over 100 sailors, most of them from the city of Nakhodka...
... died in a single day in 1965 when four Soviet fishing trawlers went down in the Bering Sea.
A severe storm shook the Bering Sea that day, reinforced by hail and frost.
On the afternoon of January 19, 1965, the four fishing vessels "Sevsk", "Boksitogorsk", "Sebezh" and "Nakhichevan" stopped answering radio calls.
An extensive search operation is started and the trawler "Urup" can only save one survivor, the boatswain Anatoly Okhrimenko from the "Boksitogorsk".
All other crew members of the four ships and the trawlers themselves are never found.
Based on the statements of the rescued boatswain, a state commission, which is supposed to clear up the disaster, later found that extensive icing on deck and the superstructures of the trawlers led to the loss of stability and sinking due to overflowing water.
The ships just got too heavy above the waterline due to the amount of ice and overturned. The hurricane, with high breakers constantly coming over them, probably prevented the crews from using the only antidote in such a case:
Knock off the ice sheet with a hammer - the higher the better!
Perhaps one or the other tried and fell overboard. Maybe not. In any case, the boys saw disaster coming and drowned helplessly.
There weren't any survival suits like today - and you can only survive for minutes in ice-cold water.
In memory of the dead sailors in the city of Nakhodka, a memorial called "Mourning Mother" was erected.
The people of Nakhodka have not forgotten their relatives and friends who stayed at sea!
The dead sailors are still remembered today ...
Over 100 sailors, most of them from the city of Nakhodka...
... died in a single day in 1965 when four Soviet fishing trawlers went down in the Bering Sea.
A severe storm shook the Bering Sea that day, reinforced by hail and frost.
On the afternoon of January 19, 1965, the four fishing vessels "Sevsk", "Boksitogorsk", "Sebezh" and "Nakhichevan" stopped answering radio calls.
An extensive search operation is started and the trawler "Urup" can only save one survivor, the boatswain Anatoly Okhrimenko from the "Boksitogorsk".
All other crew members of the four ships and the trawlers themselves are never found.
Based on the statements of the rescued boatswain, a state commission, which is supposed to clear up the disaster, later found that extensive icing on deck and the superstructures of the trawlers led to the loss of stability and sinking due to overflowing water.
The ships just got too heavy above the waterline due to the amount of ice and overturned. The hurricane, with high breakers constantly coming over them, probably prevented the crews from using the only antidote in such a case:
Knock off the ice sheet with a hammer - the higher the better!
Perhaps one or the other tried and fell overboard. Maybe not. In any case, the boys saw disaster coming and drowned helplessly.
There weren't any survival suits like today - and you can only survive for minutes in ice-cold water.
In memory of the dead sailors in the city of Nakhodka, a memorial called "Mourning Mother" was erected.
The people of Nakhodka have not forgotten their relatives and friends who stayed at sea!
The dead sailors are still remembered today ...
