Click to play video Return to video Video settings Please Log in to update your video settings Video will begin in 5 seconds. Don’t play Play now More video Recommended Click to play video Suspect detained after university shooting Click to play video Unwitting collector picks up Warhol for $5 Click to play video Falklands protest turns violent Click to play video US university shooting claims seven lives Replay video Return to video Video settings Please Log in to update your video settings Rescuers search for PNG ferry victims Rough seas and poor weather are hampering the search for up to a hundred people missing after their ferry sank off the east coast of Papua New Guinea. Autoplay OnOff Video feedback Video settings AUSTRALIAN rescue crews saved more than 200 Papua New Guineans from drowning after the MV Rabaul Queen ferry they were travelling on sank in open waters. But as night fell efforts were called off and fears remained for the 150 still missing. Officials believe up to 350 people were on board the ferry when it went down about 8.30am yesterday. They had been travelling in the Solomon Sea to Papua New Guinea’s north coast town of Lae from the West New Britain town of Kimbe. It was believed no Australians were on board the ship, which is owned by the brother of Papua New Guinea’s National Maritime Safety Authority chairman. Advertisement: Story continues below Waiting … family members standby for news about the passengers on board. Photo: AP/Post Courier The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, working with NMSA,Louis vuitton tenisky, directed commercial ships and several aircraft to scour the area as part of a co-ordinated search and rescue mission. Despite initial fears that most of the passengers would drown, late yesterday afternoon AMSA spokeswoman Carly Lusk said there were eight merchant vessels on the scene, five of which had recovered survivors. ’'There are reported to be 238 survivors on these five vessels,’‘ she said. Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says an investigation will be held into the sinking of the ferry. Photo: Nic Walker Three search helicopters were helping rescue passengers as well as AMSA’s dedicated search and rescue Dornier aircraft from Cairns,Lacoste shoes, an Australian Defence Force PC3 Orion aircraft and AMSA’s Dornier from Darwin. A series of mobile phone Facebook updates by Papua New Guinean mechanic Philip Batari included pictures of rough seas pounding the Rabaul Queen. Mr Batari went from excitement when boarding the vessel in Kimbe to ’'bloody avin a rough time at sea.. on board Rabaul Queen ..!!’‘ Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry. Photo: AP/Post Courier Ten minutes later he updated with: ’'Bloody experienceing the worse moment of my life…:((’‘ Mr Batari has not updated his page since that last post while friends have been posting their concerns and prayers for him. A shipping industry source in Lae told the Herald: ’'It’s a notoriously rough weather area where it went down. ’'It’s a big shipping passage and weather conditions at the moment aren’t the best.’‘ The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, described the incident as a ’'major tragedy’‘. The Foreign Affairs Minister, Kevin Rudd, offered Papua New Guinea ’'all necessary assistance’‘. The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill,nike shox sko, told media an investigation would be immediately launched. The MV Rabaul Queen is believed to have been carrying mostly students and trainee teachers, media reported. The ferry is owned by Peter Sharp and is part of his Rabaul Shipping fleet, the largest passenger ship operator in Papua New Guinea. Mr Sharp said in a statement to the Herald there were no signs of the MV Rabaul Queen after its sinking. ’'She apparently sank quickly and without sending out a mayday distress message,’‘ he said. ’'So far we had no reports of why the ship had an accident.’‘ Mr Sharp’s younger brother, Hamish, who is also involved in the country’s shipping industry, was appointed amid controversy as chairman of the NMSA in 2006. The brothers have had a feud for years that included Peter Sharp publicly criticising the safety standards of the NMSA in March 2008.

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