22 Missing as 70,000-DWT Bulker Vanishes in Eight Minutes

The Ocean Winner, a 70,000-deadweight-tonnage bulk carrier, sank abruptly in the Bay of Bengal on August 21, leaving 22 of its 24 crewmembers unaccounted for. The vessel, constructed in 1998, had departed from Paradip, India, two days earlier with a cargo of iron ore bound for Singapore. At approximately 1645 GMT, the ship’s automatic identification system (AIS) signal vanished, coinciding with the transmission of a distress alert. Two survivors, who managed to reach a life raft, were located by an Indian Navy aircraft the following day and rescued by a…

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