The family of two Australian men missing on a ship that hit a typhoon off Japan have shared a heartbreaking plea as final messages are revealed.
“We went through a period of mourning but then we got good snippets of information that’s giving us hope that he’s still out there with the other crew and just waiting to get picked up,” Mr Mainprize said.
“There are still so many unanswered questions and this is a time sensitive matter. There are 40 men still at sea and one lifeboat missing along with life rafts,” a spokesman for his parents Andrew and Belinda, and siblings Sarah, Tom and Emily, said. “We are hopeful that our dear Will is out there with the other remaining crew waiting to be rescued,” the spokesman said.
Lukas’ father Ulrich who is the head doctor at the Mount Isa hospital emergency department, and his mother Sabine want other countries to help out in a MH370-style search to scour the ocean, the“We have set the bar high previously with our own searches for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 along with the successful rescue of other seafarers,” the petition states.
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