On November 15th, a national-level joint water search and rescue drill
was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Transport and Chongqing City and
it was held in the waters of Huangqi Wharf in Fuling District, Chongqing.
There will be 32 ships of various types and more than 300 people
participated in this drill.
The drill was simulated when a container ship (60 containers, 6 crew
members) was descending to the waters of Huangqi Wharf in Fuling,
it was collided with a rolling ship (40 vehicles, 104 passengers, 16 crew
members), then it caused the injured of the ship passengers and some
personnel fell into the water, the ship was out of control, the truck
caught fire, the container ship was damaged and the container fell
into the water, and two heavy boxes sank into the river. The Ministry
of Transport and the Chongqing City quickly organized the water
emergency rescue forces, timely rescued the drowning personnel,
then they urgently transferred the seriously injured personnel to
the hospital, properly evacuated and arranged the passengers in
distress; timely extinguished the fire of rolling ship; then they
controlled and removed the oil spill on the surface by deploying
oil booms and oil absorbent pads, safeguarded the cleaning of
waters; dispatched professional salvage forces to remotely deliver
deep-dive equipment; swept and measured containers in the
water, took measures to resume navigation and then navigated
and towed the drowning containers to safe waters, and dragged
the ships in distress to safe waters.