NAHA, Mar 17 (News On Japan) –
Two boats carrying highschool college students on a peace examine program capsized off the coast of Henoko in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, the deliberate relocation website for a U.S. army airfield, on March sixteenth, throwing a complete of 21 individuals into the ocean, all of whom had been rescued, although a second-year feminine scholar and the male boat captain later died.
The accident, which claimed the lives of a scholar from Doshisha International High School in Kyoto Prefecture and the captain, occurred when each boats capsized at almost the identical location close to a coral reef space the place waves are inclined to rise simply, it was discovered on March seventeenth from the eleventh Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Naha. The second boat overturned about two minutes after the primary, and intermittent excessive waves could have been occurring on the time, with the Japan Coast Guard persevering with to research the detailed circumstances.
Two investigators from the Naha workplace of the Japan Transport Safety Board started an on-site investigation on March seventeenth, inspecting the 2 vessels that had been introduced again to port, and can proceed to interview crew members and college officers.
Source: Kyodo