RESCUERS have given up hope of finding any more survivors from a cargo ship that sank in the frigid North Sea off the Dutch coast, saying they are searching for the bodies of six crewmen still missing. That brings the presumed death toll to 11.
High winds and rough seas hindered the search on Wednesday night and it was called off shortly after 2am local time on Thursday.
Search planes, helicopters and ships were heading to the area to resume the search on Thursday morning, but the icy conditions made survival virtually impossible.
"Given the water temperature and the amount of time that's passed, we don't have any hope for more survivors," Peter Westenburg of the Dutch Coast Guard said. Four bodies were found on Wednesday, and 13 survivors were rescued. A fifth body was found and retrieved on Thursday by a Belgian government helicopter.
The 148-metre Baltic Ace sank after colliding with the 134-metre container ship Corvus J in darkness near busy shipping lanes some 65 kilometres off the coast of the southern Netherlands. The cause of the collision is not known.
The Baltic Ace, carrying a cargo of cars, sank quickly as its crew of 24 tried to abandon ship.
It was manned by a crew of Bulgarians, Poles, Ukrainians and Filipinos, but identities of victims, survivors and presumed victims have not been released.
Four of the survivors were flown to a hospital in Rotterdam and seven to a military hospital in Belgium. All are expected to recover. The location of the other two survivors was unclear.
Janusz Wolosz, an official with Poland's embassy in The Hague, said that two Polish crew members have been confirmed dead, three are missing and six crew, including the Polish captain, are recovering in hospital after being rescued.
The Baltic Ace, sailing under a Bahamas flag, was heading from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to Kotka in Finland, and the Cyprus-registered Corvus J was on its way from Grangemouth in Scotland to Antwerp, Belgium. The Corvus J was badly damaged but not in danger of sinking. Its 12-man crew was unharmed and had assisted in the search on Wednesday, but on Thursday began heading towards Antwerp for repairs.
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