Missing skipper

[effinreps]

Anyone heard anything about the skipper of the Maersk Responder going missing while at sea. Happened over the weekend apparently??

[mind-when-this-was-fields]

A huge rescue operation has failed to find the Danish captain of a Mærsk ship who fell overboard off the South Korean coast

It seemed like just another Monday morning for the 17-member crew of the Mærsk Responder, also carrying 55 workers who were laying cables off South Korea. But their captain, Klaus Gunnersen, never arrived for breakfast and he couldn’t be found anywhere else on board.

Since then a rescue operation numbering 11 ships has been sweeping the seas in order to find the missing 38-year-old captain from Nakskov on the island of Lolland.

After so many hours in the water, rescuers are giving up hope of finding Gunnersen alive.

[liddelljohn]

I am on a Maersk vessel at this moment and company rumour mill is that he was up on the helideck exercising at the time and possibly an unexpected large wave or wind gust did for him…RIP

[Rons_ROV_Links]

Sad news.

I’ve seen people doing exercises on helidecks offshore before and have always been wondering when one would fall off.
Guess helidecks are not made for sport exercises.

[Keith Jones]

I am on the ship at the moment and nobody knows exactly what went on
There are many theories but the one person who really knows cannot tell us

[liddelljohn]

very likely that this sad loss will never be explained as CableMan says the one person who can tell exactly what happened ….cant…be careful out there people.

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