In December 2017 Russian sailors rescued the North Korean fishermen in the Sea of Japan.
The crew members of vessel Pyotr Ilyichev were granted the Russian EMERCOM medal "For rescue on water". This was reported by the Press-office of EMERCOM Main Department in the Kamchatka Krai. At the end of 2017 the crew of Pyotr Ilyichev rescued the North Korean fishermen in the Sea of Japan.
"Rescuing the sailors who were on board a wooden schooner knee deep in water (the boat was leaking) was held on 10 December 2017 in the Sea of Japan. The vessel Pyotr Ilyichev was heading to Pusan through the North Korean exclusive economic zone", says the report.
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| Crew members of Pyotr Ilyichev / EMERCOM Main Department in the Kamchatka Krai |
According to the vessel's master Anatoly Pimenov, he moved his vessel windward so that to protect the schooner against wind and waves and then made the vessel to drift to the schooner.
Meanwhile, the deck crew prepared rescue equipment: a rescue net, a lifebuoy, a lifeline, and a pilot ladder. Eventually, three fishermen with strong frost burns were saved, the fourth one had died earlier.
This January, when the vessel Pyotr Ilyichev returned to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, its master Anatoly Pimenov was awarded a honorary mention by the EMERCOM Main Department in the Kamchatka Krai.
