Officials tell AP that Iran seized Vietnamese oil tanker
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the...
Containers and one body. but the other 32 who were on board still unaccounted for. the ship had mechanical problems, lost power and of course there was no match for the 50-foot waves and 140 mile per hour winds. >> what are investigators saying why the captain attempted to make the voyage. people knew the hurricane was coming. >> right. the owner of the cargo ship saying the captain had a sound plan to essentially avoid the storm. they're supposed to know exactly what's going on minute by minute, supposed to be equipment on board that sends weather updates from noaa. we do know from our own cn...
Conditions, specifically coming from noaa. so, they should have known what the weather conditions were. we know that at 5:00 p.m. last tuesday, according to our own cnn weather unit, that the forecast showed that this was going to change to a hurricane-strength storm, and it would be in the same area as the path of this ship. and we know that three hours later, despite that forecast, the ship did leave, according to marinetraffic.com. so, part of the investigation is going to be into the decision-making process. how much information did they have about the weather conditions and who was a part...
Transiting that area right now. in a way they're going through a crime scene at 10 20 miles an hour. i'm wondering what they see. we need more debris from the surface. i'm sort of amazed that we haven't heard more about debris fields at this point. >> well supposedly it's monsoon season. of course, most of us in the united states don't experience that. what would that be like for those searching in the water? >> i'm sure it's horrible. they should see something. i would think that they would see -- there have been breaks in the weather patterns. if you look at marinetraffic.com, there's a stea...
Malaysian government hoping to force actions and answers. >> we're certainly not getting any answers without it. >> reporter: answers may come only more slowly. a reset of the search under consideration, marinetraffic.com shows the sea floor mapping sms echo heading towards port. the u.s. navy says the principle search ship "ocean shield" was resupplied by the "cesar chavez" but can't be refueled at sea. the "ocean shield" may soon have to return to port. now, if it does have to come back to port, obviously there will be a natural point at which they will reset this search and either widen out...