700 Fishermen Missing in Myanmar After Storms.....



YANGON, Myanmar – Nearly 700 fishermen from Myanmar are missing after a three-day burst of unseasonable storms that ripped apart rickety fishing boats in the Andaman Sea, news reports said Monday.
Rescued fishermen gave harrowing accounts. Some told local media they held on for days to broken bamboo rafts before being rescued by offshore oil companies, Thai fishing boats or Myanmar naval boats.
The Weekly Eleven news journal reported that 15,583 fisherman were rescued after the March 14-17 storms whipped up 70 mph (112 kph) winds, battering fishing rafts and trawlers, and sweeping thousands of fisherman into the open seas. It said 682 fisherman were missing.

The storms hit parts of the Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated by Cyclone Nargis in May 2008. The cyclone left 130,000 people dead.

All of the survivors have said the same thing.....that these storms came out of nowhere.
The thing that gets me is that these are fishermen and that they kinda have an idea on hot to sail. But this is a lot of people missing who have probably been a culture and group of people that have been sailing for generations. Thoughts?

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