The U.S. Coast Guard was attempting late Sunday night to rescue four crew members trapped in the engine room of a cargo ship that capsized and caught fire near Brunswick, Georgia.
The U.S. Coast Guard was attempting late Sunday night to rescue four crew members trapped in the engine room of a massive cargo ship that capsized and caught fire early Sunday morning near Brunswick, Georgia.
South Korea's foreign ministry confirmed that the Hyundai Glovis cargo ship Golden Ray, which was transporting automobiles, had begun listing and then capsized in St. Simons Sound, in the early morning hours Sunday. Sun bathers on Jekyll Island's Driftwood Beach look at their phones as the Golden Ray cargo ship sits capsized off the Georgia coast on Sunday.At approximately 2 a.m. ET on Sunday, Coast Guard Sector Charleston was alerted and multiple Coast Guard resources were deployed to the scene, according to a Coast Guard press release.
Twenty people, including six South Koreans, 13 people from the Philippines, and one American who was a pilot, were safely rescued, South Korea's foreign ministry said. The four others still trapped are South Korean.
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