The captain and the chief engineer said the ship capsized "within one or two minutes" of being trapped in extreme weather conditions, the China Daily newspaper reported. Wang Yangsheng, a senior official with the Yueyang Maritime Rescue Center, said that the incident happened "so fast that the captain did not even have the time to send out a distress signal," according to the newspaper.
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