The ship, the Mariana, was found overturned days after the Coast Guard lost contact with its crew, after a super typhoon struck.
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku began battering the Northern Mariana Islands earlier this week, causing damage on the islands of Tinian and Saipan and flash flooding in Guam, the site of several American military bases.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for six people after losing contact with their disabled boat off the coast of Guam following Typhoon Sinlaku.
US Coast Guard searching for 6 after losing contact with disabled boat off Guam following Typhoon Sinlaku.
Officials report severe flooding in Saipan hospital, fierce winds and toppled utility poles in wake of Super Typhoon Sinlaku ...
More than 1,000 people were in shelters across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as Sinlaku moved away ...
But there were no early reports of casualties from the storm, which was named Sinlaku and was moving northwest of the region.
The inner eyewall of Super Typhoon Sinlaku came ashore on a chain of remote U.S. island territories in the Western Pacific, which includes Guam, on Tuesday.
The storm, named Sinlaku, was expected to make landfall on Tuesday evening in Tinian and Saipan, where tens of thousands of people were urged to shelter in place.
Slow-moving Sinlaku is weakening as it heads towards Guam, but it will still bring dangerous conditions to the region.