Japanese coast guard rescuers searched Thursday for the remaining 42 crew, including 39 Filipinos, of a ship believed to have sunk in a typhoon, after a lone survivor was found bobbing in a lifejacket. The 11,947-ton Gulf Livestock 1, carrying a cargo of 5,800 cows, issued a distress call in the early hours of Wednesday from a position 185 kilometers west of Japan’s Amami Oshima island in the East China Sea. Japan’s coast guard dispatched planes and rescue boats to hunt for the ship and late Wednesday found a sole survivor -- the ship’s 45-year-old Filipino chief officer who is unidentified and currently in hospital.

39 Filipinos in sunken cattle ship off Japan. (2020, September 4). Manila Standard, pp. A1, A2.