JAKARTA
\nEleven Indonesian fishermen survived after three days at sea clinging to their capsized boat, rescuers said Wednesday as they searched for at least 22 crew still missing after the weekend incident that left two dead. The boat with at least 35 crew capsized on Saturday in waters off the remote Selayar Islands in South Sulawesi Province before the 11 were found stranded on two separate atolls after days floating in the sea.
\nTheir boat capsized in bad weather during Indonesia\u2019s rainy season, according to the local search and rescue agency.\u201dThey had been floating in the sea for three days, they were carried away by the current to Selayar waters,\u201d local government official Andi Caco Amras told media Wednesday. The two victims were found on separate islands.
\nThe fishing boat departed from a North Jakarta port on March 3 to Lombok Island in West Nusa Tenggara Province.The navy and rescue volunteers were helping with the search efforts. \u201cThe joint team will conduct a search and rescue operation and they have departed… this morning,\u201d local search and rescue official Andi Raswan told media. He said it would take rescuers five hours to reach the location.
\nThe survivors were found after local fishermen spotted them and alerted authorities, state news agency Antara reported. Amras told media survivors said they held out for three days at sea by wearing life jackets and tying themselves to the boat. \u201cThey were carried away along with the boat to the Selayar islands. The boat was turned over, the bottom was at the top,\u201d said the official.
\nThe vessel of 93 gross tons was carrying \u201cequipment to catch fish such as fish traps, nets, rocks, ropes, coconut leaves and fishing rods,\u201d he said. Amras said 35 people were on the boat with 22 missing while the rescue agency gave a higher toll of 37 and 24 missing. It is common in Indonesia for the number of actual passengers on a boat to differ from the manifest.
\nAuthorities received reports about the incident early Tuesday but said bad weather had hampered their efforts.Marine accidents are a regular occurrence in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian archipelago of around 17,000 islands, due to lax safety standards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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