Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Salvage of sunken tour boat off Hokkaido

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2022, shows the barge Kaishin (front) under preparation for the lifting of a sunken tour boat from a depth of about 180 meters off the Hokkaido town of Shari, northern Japan. The tour boat, which went missing on April 23 with 26 people aboard, was pulled up from a depth of about 120 meters to near the sea surface on May 23 but dropped back to the seabed the following day while being towed toward shallow waters.

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