A second survivor was found floating unconscious on Friday morning and taken to hospital, but later died.
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Australasian Global Exports confirmed it employed four crew members on the football-field-sized vessel, which was transporting more than 5800 cattle from Napier in New Zealand to Tangshan, China, when it disappeared in the midst of typhoon Masak. The typhoon has sent winds of more than 200 km/h across the East China Sea. The coast guard has found dozens of dead cows have floating in the waters off Japan.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to the families of two missing Australian crew members. Mount Isa priest Michael Lowcock on Thursday said Orda was one of the missing Australians. The second Australian has yet to be identified.
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