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Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka




A Russian trawler has sunk off the Kamchatka peninsula, with 54 sailors so far confirmed dead. Sixty-three people have been rescued, many suffering from hypothermia, according to officials in Russia's Far East, but 15 are reported missing. The Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler had 132 people on board when it sank. Seventy-eight of those on board were Russian and 42 were from Myanmar. The remainder were from Vanuatu, Latvia and Ukraine. The Dalniy Vostok went down in the Sea of Okhotsk, 330 km (205 miles) west of Krutogorovsky settlement, at around 06:30 local time (20:30 GMT Wednesday).







The exact location of the accident is not known but it is not far from Petropavlovsk from where the rescue team operated. Shown here is the chart for the solar eclipse of March 20 at Petropavlovsk. The eclipse took place in the 9th house with Mars-Uranus-Pluto square straddling the meridian. About eclipses in the 9th house H.S. Green writes in “Mundane or National Astrology”.

Storms, accidents or disasters at sea; misfortune for shipping and sailors.

The Mars-Uranus-Pluto square is well known to be connected with accidents. Additionally, Mars [21ar] is conjunct the star Baten Kaitos, zeta Ceti [22ar] in the Sea Monster’s belly. About this star Diana Rosenberg writes:

Baten Kaitos is one of the most frequently found stars involved in shipwrecks.


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