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3 survivors, 4 bodies later… Pressure mounts for search to resume
People from the Croatian coastal town of Sibenik have launched a petition calling on the French authorities to continue the search for the missing crew members of the Bourbon Rhode, which sank on September 26 in the Atlantic, among whom is their fellow citizen, Croatian Captain Dino Miskic.
The petition, which now counts 35,000 signatures, came after the French Regional Operational Centre for Surveillance and Rescue, CROSS, last Friday said the search for the missing crew had been suspended. The number of signatures continues to grow.
The ship with its 14-member crew sank near the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Search operations since September 26 by CROSS and the French Navy found only three survivors, as well as four bodies. Seven other crew members are still missing.
After 110,000 square kilometres of the sea were searched, the operation was suspended because it was deemed unlikely that further searches would produce results. All merchant ships passing through the area have been instructed to monitor and report any useful information.
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has asked her French counterpart, Emanuel Macron, to ensure a review of the decision to suspend the search, as long as there is even a slim chance of finding other survivors.
Marijana Kedzo Miskic, Miskic’s wife, has also sent an open letter to the Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Gordan Grlic Radman, asking him to help with his influence.
“My family and I cannot, and do not want to accept it [the suspension of the search] especially since we are informed by the surviving crew members that the remaining crew members successfully boarded the life raft,” Kedzo Miskic wrote.
The Ministry said it had been in constant contact with the French authorities, the search coordinators on Martinique, the Bourbon Offshore company and Miskovic’s family.
“The [Croatian] embassy in Paris also sent a diplomatic note to the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs related to the search for missing persons and asked for direct communication on the progress of the search,” the Ministry wrote on Saturday, according to a report on the Balkaninsight.com website.
The Bourbon Rhode was on its way to Guyana to help offshore oil activities currently taking place.
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