来源于当地的消息说，货船在中国东北海域沉没后，更多的中国救援船和直升机已经被动员寻找17名失踪船员。 大连海上救援中心称：交通部下属的北海救援局派出三艘救援船，两袈直升机和一架滑翔机正在更大的范围搜索。 Ryong Ak San号货船隶属于朝鲜渔业局，于星期二下午在辽宁省大连市老铁口和旅顺口附近沉没。 据中心说，这艘船有25名船员，装载了2900吨货物，从西部港口城市Haeju出发，是在去往天津津堂港口的路上沉没的。这艘船的承载能力为3000吨。 星期二已经有8名船员获救，但是另外的17名船员还没有找到。 辽宁省海事局副局长郭子瑞说：8名获救船员的状况都很良好，已住在大连的酒店。 海事局声称，经过出事地点的5艘商船也被派往加入搜索。大连海军基地的船只也加入了搜索当中。 郭副局长说：寻找和救援工作在大风中相当困难，但我们会尽最大的努力。如果星期三之前没有找到失踪船员，他们在零度的海水中生还的机会十分渺茫。 大连市海上营救中心收到Guangyuan号船的报告说：星期二下午3：08，一艘船在我们前面一海里的地方突然沉没了。 海事局局长何建中说：我们立即启动了紧急措施来营救船员。 海事局局长大连市副市长何建中说：一收到报告，大连市北海第一空中营救大队的一架直升机和北海救援局的救援船便赶到出事地点。 交通部部长李盛霖指挥救援工作，尽一切努力找到失踪船员。正在通过外交渠道与朝鲜进行联系。
More Chinese rescue ships and helicopters have been mobilized to search for the 17 missing seamen after a cargo ship sank off northeast China, but little progress has been achieved so far, local maritime sources said.
Three rescue vessels, two helicopters and a fixed-wing aircraft, all of them from the Beihai Rescue Bureau under the Ministry of Communications, are searching a wider area, said the Dalian Maritime Rescue Center.
The Ryong Ak San, belonging to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's fishery authorities, sank near Laotiekou, Lushunkou District of Dalian, Liaoning Province on Tuesday afternoon.
It was on its way to the Jingtang Port in north China's Tianjin from the DPRK's western port city of Haeju with 2,900 tons of ore and 25 crew members aboard when it sank, the center said. The vessel's loading capacity is 3,000 tons, the center said.
Eight seamen were rescued Tuesday, but 17 others were missing.
All the eight rescued seamen are in good shape, said Guo Zirui, vice director of the Liaoning Provincial Maritime Bureau. The eight now stay in a hotel of Dalian.
Five other merchant ships passing by the site were also asked to join the search, according to the bureau.
Vessels from a Chinese navy base in Dalian also joined the search.
The search and rescue work is extremely difficult in the high winds, but we will do our best, said Guo.
He said the missing men probably had little chance of survival beyond Wednesday in the freezing waters and high seas.
The Dalian maritime rescue center received a report from another vessel, the Guangyuan, at 3:08 p.m. Tuesday, saying a ship had suddenly sunk one nautical mile ahead of it.
An emergency operation was immediately launched to search for the crew of the ship, said He Jianzhong, director of the center.
A helicopter from the Beihai No. 1 Air Rescue Squad in Dalian and rescue vessels from the Beihai Rescue Bureau were at the site immediately after the report, said He, also vice mayor of Dalian.
Minister of Communications Li Shenglin has instructed rescue workers to make every effort to search for the missing seamen. Contact with the DPRK via diplomatic channels is also underway.
