Martin Antonenko
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Over 100 Fishermen Stay At Sea!
A severe hurricane shook the Bering Sea in mid-January 1965, intensified by hail and frost.
On the afternoon of January 19, 1965, the four Soviet fishing vessels "Sevsk", "Boksitogorsk", "Sebezh" and "Nakhichevan" stopped responding to radio calls.
All trawlers and their crews come from the small polar sea port of Nachodka...:
An extensive search operation is launched and the trawler "Urup" can save only one survivor, boatswain Anatoly Okhrimenko from the "Boksitogorsk"...:
All other crew members of the four ships - over a hundred men - and the trawlers themselves are never found.
A government commission tasked with investigating the catastrophe later came to the conclusion that extensive icing on the deck and superstructure of the trawler caused the trawler to lose stability and sink due to overflowing water.
The ships simply became too top-heavy above the waterline due to the large amount of ice and then capsized. The hurricane with constantly overcoming high breakers probably prevented the crews from using the only antidote in such a case:
Knock the ice shell off with the hammer - the higher the better!
Maybe one or the other tried and went overboard. Maybe not. In any case, the boys saw their fate coming and drowned helplessly.
Survival suits like today did not exist back then - and you can only survive for minutes in the ice-cold water.
In memory of the dead sailors in the town of Nakhodka, a monument called "Mourning Mother" was erected.
A severe hurricane shook the Bering Sea in mid-January 1965, intensified by hail and frost.
On the afternoon of January 19, 1965, the four Soviet fishing vessels "Sevsk", "Boksitogorsk", "Sebezh" and "Nakhichevan" stopped responding to radio calls.
All trawlers and their crews come from the small polar sea port of Nachodka...:
An extensive search operation is launched and the trawler "Urup" can save only one survivor, boatswain Anatoly Okhrimenko from the "Boksitogorsk"...:
All other crew members of the four ships - over a hundred men - and the trawlers themselves are never found.
A government commission tasked with investigating the catastrophe later came to the conclusion that extensive icing on the deck and superstructure of the trawler caused the trawler to lose stability and sink due to overflowing water.
The ships simply became too top-heavy above the waterline due to the large amount of ice and then capsized. The hurricane with constantly overcoming high breakers probably prevented the crews from using the only antidote in such a case:
Knock the ice shell off with the hammer - the higher the better!
Maybe one or the other tried and went overboard. Maybe not. In any case, the boys saw their fate coming and drowned helplessly.
Survival suits like today did not exist back then - and you can only survive for minutes in the ice-cold water.
In memory of the dead sailors in the town of Nakhodka, a monument called "Mourning Mother" was erected.
