Family claims missing Aussie sailors could be in un-searched area
Eerie footage has surfaced of the Gulf Livestock 1 filling with water, in the hours before it sank off the coast of Japan, where two Australian sailors are still missing.
Other videos were also sent home by crew members, documenting the turbulent conditions.
It's prompted more urgent calls for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to send a search crew to look for the 40 missing seafarers, including Australians Lukas Orda and Will Mainprize.
William Mainprize and Lukas Orda have not been found after their ship went down off the coast of Japan.. 9News
"Please go out and search for our boy," Lukas' mother Sabine Orda said tearfully.
Lukas' wife, Emma, posted an emotional video with the couple's son saying, "I beg you to help us keep the search going".
Lukas' parents have sought advice from a New Zealand maritime expert who told them the Japanese coastguard could have been looking in the wrong area.
There are 40 crew members still missing from the vessel. Facebook
"We have received maps of the search conducted and also maps predicting where they may have been at the time and are potentially now," they said.
"And this reinforces our concern that they may have already been well out of the area searched."
The Australian Government has been silent on the issue for days.
North Queensland MP Robbie Katter stood with the Orda family on Friday calling on the Prime Minister or Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne to intervene.
Mr Ordas wife Emma has pleaded for the search to continue. Facebook
His emotions have since turned from sadness last week to anger today.
"Of course I'm angry, how do you wait four days to send a plane out to look for people that are lost at sea?" he said.
Online petitions have gained close to 50,000 signatures.
In a joint statement last Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack and Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said Australia continued to encourage Japan's search efforts and offered Japan any support they needed.
"Japan's Coast Guard has assured Australia it will not give up its search for those missing," the statement read.
"The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will continue to provide the families of the missing Australians with all possible consular assistance."
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