On the morning of December 22 the ship, along with all eight crew members, was brought to shore safely.

The MRCC received a distress call from a ship captained by Nguyen Mo from Son Tra district in distress in the waters off Thua Thien Hue province on December 21.

The ship’s crew members had been fishing off the coast when the ship’s engine had broken down.

The crew members were unable to send out an SOS distress signal as the ship’s power source had run out. The ship was reported to be stranded in the area with thundershowers and had then drifted east, losing contact with the mainland.

The MRCC dispatched the ship SAR274 to initiate a search for the stranded vessel at 19:00 on December 21. On the morning of December 22, all crew members of the fishing boat were found safely and brought aboard the rescue ship. The fishing vessel DNa9046 was also towed safely to port.

Earlier, a ship coded SAR411 that also belongs to the MRCC also rescued successfully a ship along with five crew members in the waters of Da Nang.