Tokyo tower. File photoTOKYO, May 27.The cruise ship KAZU 1, which sank in April with 26 people on board, was raised to the surface in Japan, NHK reported. This was the second attempt to raise the vessel. During the previous one, it was possible to lift it from a depth of 120 meters to 100 meters, but it fell off the cables and fell to a depth of 182 meters. The second attempt, which began on Monday, ended at 3 am on Friday. KAZU 1 has been installed on the towing platform of a rescue vessel and is being transported to the port of Abashiri in Hokkaido. The ship will be unloaded there. As expected, the inspection of the ship will shed light on the causes of the tragedy, which killed 14 people, another 12 people are missing. islands of Hokkaido. There were 26 people on it, including two children. A day later, 15 kilometers northeast of the place where the ship gave a distress signal, 10 dead were found, and a day later — a dead girl, who was carried another 14 kilometers to the east. After that, the bodies of three more people were found. Thus, 12 people are still missing.The body of a possible victim of the crash was found near Kunashir, the head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry saidA few days after the accident, the ship was found at a depth of 120 meters in the area from which the distress signal was received. Then two bodies were found off the coast of Kunashir. Near one of them was a driver's license in the name of Akira Soyama — that was the name of the sailor from the sunken ship. Presumably, the cause of the accident could be adverse weather conditions, the height of the waves at the time of the accident reached three meters, as well as safety violations. It is known that the company violated the basics of navigation by sending the ship to sea with an unfavorable weather forecast. The ship went to sea with a broken radio and a faulty satellite connection. Most of the way KAZU 1 used cellular communication, which is unstable in sea conditions. According to the first results of the investigation, the message that the ship was in distress was sent from the passenger's cell phone. cruise ship
