Dozens of people with life jackets were found floating in Indonesia’s Gulf of Bone on Sunday, some clinging to a fish trap, after abandoning their ferry in rough seas off Sulawesi Island, said officials, adding that two passengers had died.
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Roki Asikin, head of the local Search and Rescue Agency, said his team of rescuers could not reach the vessel because of the bad weather but at daybreak on Sunday larger ships and air force helicopters and aircraft would join the search.
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Rough waters are complicating rescue efforts after the weekend capsize of a ship off the central Indonesian coast, with workers saying they have found 37 survivors and three bodies, but that 78 people are still missing.
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When asked whether the boat had sunk, police spokesman Frans Barung said: “Maybe yes, maybe no”.
All four survivors of the ship, which was sailing from Kolaka in Southeast Sulawesi to Siwa in South Sulawesi, have been sent to Siwa Hospital.
The whereabouts of the remaining 76 people were unclear, with search and rescue teams hampered by rough conditions and waves up to five meters high.
Asikin said the boat was hit by waves more than three metres high amid stormy weather about 21 kilometres southeast of Wajo island, causing it to spring a leak. “So when the boat started to tilt sideway, all the passengers jumped into the water”, said Mussakar.
Television footage shows family members in waiting anxiously at the Siwa port for their loved ones.
Officials dismissed initial reports that the boat had sunk, instead claiming it was adrift, having lost engine power.
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Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands linked by ferry services, but correspondents say the industry has a poor safety record.
