Five dead as ship sinks from Antarctica

The South Korean fishing boat, 614-ton-number one Insung in a unknown port AFP/Getty Images of this photo shows published in Seoul.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A in South Korea fishing boat in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica Monday sank, exit 22 sailors dead feared.

Five sailors have been confirmed dead and 20 survivors were rescued shortly after South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Coast Guard said some 2,250 km south of New Zealand that went 614-ton ship. Seventeen sailors were missing.

Who fell would be dead in these waters usually 10 minutes without special suits or life jackets, although close to a frantic search in hopes that some started may have made it fishing boats in a life raft New Zealand coordination Rescue Center said.

A South Korean fishing boat sinks into freezing waters close to Antarctica to leave five people dead. Video courtesy of Reuters.

"We were lucky that there were a number of ships in the General area [where the boat sank], were so you are able to support," Ross Henderson said maritime NZ spokesman.

Search later Monday was scaled down, as it was more "increasingly unlikely" survivors found would, he said. Two New Zealand fishing boats were released from the effort, but three Korean ships searched on officials said.

Rescuers as call aircraft from either New Zealand or from the U.S. station McMurdo sound, but Mr Henderson said research Antarctic the plan was abandoned because neither aircraft of remote area to find achieved during to survivors.

Many boats run the distant seas to drag into deep water fish such as the Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean sea bass to sell restaurants around the world. With world consumption of seafood, increasing commercial fleets have begun to demand further offshore operations.

The South Korean owned and operated no.1 Insung had 42 persons to Board when it sank - eight South Korean, Chinese, 11 Indonesian, 11 Vietnamese, three Filipinos and a Russian, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said eight in a statement.

Confirmed two Indonesian containing dead two South Koreans and a Vietnamese, a Ministry official said on condition of anonymity speak because of the rules of Office. He said that four Chinese sailors were missing while four other Chinese were rescued.

It was unclear why the vessel in light winds and a relatively mild one metre waves sank.

Separately to South Korean media reports that high waves, which later developed in the area were hampered the bailout.

Seoul-based Insung Corporation that owns the boat said that intensive bailouts underway were. Company official Lee Wu won said that a South Korean fishing boat, operating in the vicinity of the first contacted Insung officials about the decline of previous Monday.

Whiny family of the missing sailors gathered at Insung's Office in the southern port city of Busan and waiting for messages to their loved ones.

Kim Sun-Su said his brother-in-law, the boat skipper missing Yu young-SUP told him, he no longer wanted in a recent call to work on the boat.

"I just hope he again is home alive," said Kim, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

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