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1 Survivor Saved from Wrecked Yacht off Philippines Tokyo - July 17, 2019 Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) today announced that on July 1, the MOL-operated LNG carrier Energy Advance safely rescued a castaway in the Pacific Ocean about 970km off Luzon Island in the Philippines. Details of the rescue are as follows: *At 6:21 (all times in local time) on July 1, the Energy Advance, underway from the port of Ogishima, Japan, to Dampier, Australia, received a request for rescue assistance from the Guam Rescue Coordination Centre. The LNG carrier rushed to the scene and at around 11:10 the same day, one castaway was safely rescued from the yacht Shuten Dohji II. Outline of Energy Advance LOA:: 289.53m Gross tonnage: 119,233 ton Crew: 31 (Japanese, Indonesian) Registry: Japan 
Wrecked yacht and rescued point. Image by MOL. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. press release 
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