Inquest into 'death ship' to continue

An inquest into the fatalities aboard the so-called "death ship" Sage Sagittarius will continue in Sydney on Thursday.

Head chef Cesar Llanto vanished overboard on the Japanese coal vessel as it approached Australian waters off the coast of Cairns on August 30, 2012.

Two weeks later, the ship's chief engineer Hector Collado died after falling 11m from one deck to another as the ship entered Newcastle, NSW.

A third death later occurred when Japanese superintendent Kosaku Monji was crushed in a conveyor belt while the ship was docked in Japan but this is beyond the scope of the NSW inquest.

The inquest previously heard Mr Llanto may have been planning to report the captain's misconduct before he disappeared, and that tensions erupted on the ship surrounding gun-running Captain, Venancio Salas Jr's, treatment of the gay "mess man," Jessie Martinez.