Description

About Taipei local time 1620 hours, on July 6th, 2019, a Suao- registered fishing boat "JINLONGGTAI No.6", registration number CT4-2481, departed from Nanfangao Fishing Port for fishing operation, there were 9 crew members on board (Nationality -1 Taiwanese, 1 Chinese, 7 Indonesian). About 1650 hours, on August 18, the boat near the waters of Midway Island, Hawaii (34°38' north latitude, 171°36' east longitude), the ship's position systems- the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) and vessel Automatic Identification System (AIS) were simultaneously disconnected, and lost the satellite telephone communication signal. On August 23, the suspected wreckage of "JINLONGGTAI No.6" was found (34°25.9' north latitude, 170°50.4' east longitude). All of crew members were missing, no oil pollution in this occurrence.