| Death in High Seas |
[15 Dec 2004|12:39pm] |
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At her home in Mumbai, Radhika Singh is praying for husband Durg Vijai Singh’s safe return. When the latest news update came in late last night, Durg Vijai Singh's body was presumed to be drifting in a violent surf next to a cliff in the remote Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The 54 year old sea man was the second engineer of the ill-fated cargo ship Selendang Ayu, flying a Malaysian flag with a predominantly Indian crew, which ran aground and broke in to two, in 35-foot waves, with winds gusting more than 60 mph on Wednesday Dec 8, near Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
M/V Selendang Ayu ripped open in two pieces, bunker oil combined with ship’s cargo of soybeans spreads out in to the sea. (photo by Bob Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News)
( The story is woven together from the excerpts from Anchorage Daily News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Eric Nalder’s report and inputs from The State of Alaska's Prevention and Emergency Response Program’s Unified Command Control for M/V Selendang Ayu Grounding )
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