Overview
- The bulk carrier MV Ocean Winner sank in the Bay of Bengal after losing contact, with the distress alert received by Sri Vijaya Puram MRCC and two survivors pulled from liferafts by the merchant tanker MT AISOPOS.
- Rescue teams from the Indian Coast Guard and Navy have deployed multiple ships and a P‑8I surveillance aircraft and continue surface and air searches for the 22 unaccounted crew members.
- The 24‑member crew included 20 Chinese nationals, three Myanmar nationals and one Bangladeshi seafarer and two rescued sailors reported the vessel listed and sank within about eight minutes.
- Authorities say the ship vanished from tracking systems before it went down and the cause of the rapid sinking is under investigation by maritime agencies and the ship’s operator.
- Deep open‑ocean location roughly 200–240 nautical miles off Paradip complicates rescue work and will shape consular response, inquiries into cargo handling and discussions about bulk‑carrier safety and tracking procedures.