Indonesian rescuers search for passenger ship with 240+ people missing in Java Sea

In the early hours of a Sunday morning, a passenger vessel carrying 241 souls fell silent somewhere in the Java Sea, that ancient corridor between Java and Borneo where human movement and maritime peril have long coexisted. The Virgo Transport 8 had set out from Surabaya on a routine crossing to Banjarmasin when bad weather intervened, and by 2 a.m. its signal was gone. Indonesian rescue authorities, confronted with the weight of 241 unknown fates, responded with the full measure of what they had — because when the sea takes a ship from the radar, all that remains is the search.