{"id":829,"date":"2017-11-03T06:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T05:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:52:33","slug":"10-missing-after-cargo-ship-sinks-off-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/10-missing-after-cargo-ship-sinks-off-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"10 missing after cargo ship sinks off Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten seafarers have been reported missing after the Turkey-flagged general cargo ship Bilal Bal sank some seven nautical miles off the coast of Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>A search and rescue operation for the missing crew members is currently underway, according to the Turkish Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The 1974-built vessel sank shortly after it sent out a distress signal in the morning hours of November 1 while it was in the Black Sea. The cause of the sinking is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The coast guard deployed three vessels, one helicopter and a plane for the mission reports World Maritime News.\u00a0At the time of the incident, the 2,999 dwt vessel was carrying a cargo of cast iron from the country\u2019s Bursa province to Zonguldak, Reuters cited local media Reports World Maritime News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten seafarers have been reported missing after the Turkey-flagged general cargo ship Bilal Bal sank some seven nautical miles off the coast of Istanbul. A search and rescue operation for the missing crew members is currently underway, according to the Turkish Coast Guard. The 1974-built vessel sank shortly after it sent out a distress signal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[102,128,129],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime","tag-maritime","tag-ship-sinking","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}