File photo for representation. This handout photo released by the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on August 14, 2023 shows personnel searching for seven people off Indonesia's Sumatra island. (Photo by Handout / National Search and Rescue Agency / AFP)
Jakarta: Indonesian rescuers found 11 European tourists and one crew member alive after the speedboat carrying them went missing in the waters of Tomini Bay off Gorontalo province in eastern Indonesia, authorities said on Saturday.
The tourists and the crew member were evacuated by a joint search and rescue team to Tojo Una-Una Regency in Central Sulawesi after they were located in the waters of Tomini Bay, Heriyanto, head of the Gorontalo Search and Rescue Office, told local media.
Heriyanto said search operations are continuing for the missing captain.
The speedboat departed from a dive resort in Central Sulawesi on Friday morning for a port in Gorontalo but failed to arrive as scheduled, prompting a search operation.
