Rescue mission

Sailors salute in front of the Navy’s P-3C Orion patrol plane at an air base in Yecheon, North Gyeongsang Province, Saturday. Two of the aircraft left for the Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, to join a search operation in Russian waters in the Bering Sea where a 1,753-ton Korean trawler, the Oryong 501, sank on Dec. 1. They arrived in Alaska early on Sunday morning. / Courtesy of Navy