每日外刊 | 0427-载有26人的旅游船在日本北部发出求救信号后失踪

据日本共同社报道，一艘载有26人的观光船23日在北海道北部知床半岛附近进水下沉，求救后失联。日本海上保安厅发布最新声明称，截至当地时间23日20时，26名船上人员依然下落不明，船也没有找到。遇险的是一艘定员65人的小型观光船，事发时船上有船员和游客共26人，包括2名儿童和24名成人，事发地当天风浪较大。日本海上保安厅第一管区于当地时间13时15分接到该船报警，该船船员称“船头部分进水，船在下沉，船体出现约30度倾斜”，15时后该船失联。日本海上保安厅已派出5艘巡视船和2架飞机前往现场营救。

Tour boat with 26 missing in north Japan after distress call

The 19-ton Kazu 1 made an emergency call in early afternoon, saying the ship’s bow had flooded and was beginning to sink and tilt while it was traveling off the western coast of Shiretoko Peninsula in the northern island of Hokkaido, the coast guard said. The tour boat has since lost contact, according to the coast guard. It said the boat was carrying 24 passengers, including two children, and two crew. Average April sea temperatures in Shiretoko National Park are just above freezing.

An official of the vessel's operator, Shiretoko Pleasure Cruise, said he could not comment as he had to respond to calls from worried families of the passengers. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was attending a two-day water summit in Kumamoto in southern Japan, was canceling his program for Sunday and was set to return to Tokyo to deal with the missing boat, the NHK public broadcaster reported. High waves and strong winds were observed in the area around noon, according to a local fisheries cooperative. Japanese media reports said fishing boats had returned to port before noon because of the bad weather.

• distress call 求救信号；

• off /ɔːf/ prep.（时空上）离，距；

• issue /ˈɪʃuː/ vt. 发行；发布；

• patrol /pəˈtroʊl/ n. 巡逻，巡查；

• diver /ˈdaɪvər/ n. 潜水员；

• through /θruː/ prep. 自始至终，从头至尾；

• bow /baʊ , boʊ/ n. 船头，舰首；

• tilt /tɪlt/ vi.（使）倾斜；

• vessel /ˈvesl/ n. 船，舰；

• comment /ˈkɑːment/ vi. 评论；表达意见；

• set to 开始认真干；动手做；

• fisheries cooperative 渔业合作社；