Emma Orda says she fears her baby son Theo will grow up never knowing his dad and urges authorities in Japan and Australia to keep searching for the livestock ship he was working on, which went missing in a typhoon.
The wife of Queensland veterinarian Lukas Orda, who went missing when the livestock ship he was working on capsized off the coast of Japan, has made an emotional plea for search efforts for possible survivors to be expanded and resumed full time.Emma Orda says she fears her son will never know his fatherEmma Orda released video footage captured by her husband, showing the ship being pounded by rough seas hours before it disappeared.
"I stand here today with our son, Theodore, who is only six months old and faces the possibility of never knowing his father," she said.Lukas Orda was on board the Gulf Livestock 1 when it went missing.Mr Orda and New South Wales man Will Mainprize were among 40 crew on board the Gulf Livestock 1 when the ship sankLast week, Japan's Coast Guard scaled back its search for survivors, more than a week after the ship sent out a distress call.
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