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MOSCOW — A rescue ship reached a Russian cargo vessel stranded in icy waters off eastern Russia with 31 crew members aboard and prepared to escort it to safety, officials said today.
The Smolninsky refrigerated ship was battered by heavy winds Friday and listed dangerously to its port side in the Sea of Okhotsk, which separates Russia’s Kam chatka peninsula from the mainland.
The Smolninsky’s captain sent a distress call Friday morning. The ship managed to restart its main engine and was trying to reduce the degree of tilt, Ivanov said in a telephone interview. Once it’s done, the rescue vessel will escort it to safer waters.
