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One crewmember, the cook, aboard a South Korean tugboat, miraculously survived as the boat he was working on capsized off Busan, South Korea, on Wednesday afternoon, September 2. Search and rescue teams recovered the body of one other crewmember and were continuing to search for six others who were still missing as night fell on Busan.
The 286-ton tugboat TNS Catcher had been dispatched Wednesday morning with a crew of eight aboard and was assigned to assist a containership. The vessel is not being named in the Korean media, only identified as a 66,332-ton Liberian-flagged vessel. The tug built in 2007 was 34 meters (110 feet) in length.
It is unclear from the reports if the operations had begun, but the tug was near the containership based on the pictures released by the Busan Coast Guard. The tug suddenly overturned at around 1:29 pm local time.
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