ZAGREB, October 8, 2019 – The Bourbon shipping company said on Monday that the search operation for missing seafarers from its Bourbon Rhode tug boat, including captain Dino Miškić of Croatia, would be continued by the Alp Striker vessel and that all commercial vessels sailing through the area where the Bourbon Rhode sank on September 26 had been alerted.
The French CROSS emergency centre on the French island of Martinique said last Friday that it had suspended the search for seven missing Bourbon Rhode seamen. The tug sank with a 14-member crew on board in the Atlantic about 2,000 kilometres from the nearest mainland, Martinique.
The crew were mostly Ukrainians and it also included one Russian, one South African and one Filipino as well as the captain Miškić.
After receiving the news about the end of the search, Miškić‘s family appealed to the Croatian state leadership to help continue the search, and an online petition has been launched and is being signed by citizens of Croatia and Ukraine.
The search operation launched after the ship sank lasted for a week and resulted in the discovery of three crew members who were alive and four members who died. No other bodies have been found since October 1.
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