A Panamanian-flagged vessel carrying 6,000 cows and 43 crewmembers, including 39 Filipinos, sank off Japan waters after transmitting a distress signal during a typhoon. The Gulf Livestock 1 issued the distress call early Wednesday 185 kilometers west of Japan’s Amami Oshima island. By late Wednesday, Japan’s coast guard rescuers located only one survivor – the vessel’s chief officer Edwardo Sareno, one of the Filipinos on board the ship.

Lee-Brago, P., & Jaymalin, M. (2020, September 4). 42 feared dead as ship capsizes off Japan. The Philippine Star, p. 5.