Cargo ship with 13 Filipinos aboard overturns off Georgia port

Cargo ship with 13 Filipinos aboard overturns off Georgia port
Associated Press / September 10, 2019 https://usa.inquirer.net/39213/cargo-ship-with-13-filipinos-aboard-overt...

A crew member of the cargo ship Golden Ray is helped off the capsized ship September 9, 2019.
SIMON’S SOUND, Georgia – U.S. Coast Guard rescuers began pulling trapped crew members from a capsized cargo ship Monday, finding them alive more than a day after the vessel overturned while leaving a port on the Georgia coast.

Rescuers plucked three South Korean crew members from a room in the hull near the ship’s propeller and were working on removing the last one.

At least two of the men who were extracted from a hole drilled in the hull of the Golden Ray were able to walk with assistance down to a waiting boat. All three were being examined by medical personnel.

Marine Traffic shows the Golden Ray overturned as it was passed by another car carrier entering St. Simons Sound. At the time, the skies were clear and the weather calm, with a southerly breeze of only 5 mph, according to National Weather Service records.

Many of those rescued were taken to the International Seafarers’ Center in Brunswick.