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Rescuers stopped their search on Monday for a diver and a telegraphist who disappeared from their ships in two separate incidents in the seas of Japan and Okhotsk on April 14.

Diver Roman Akberov from the ship Skopin went missing near the island of Iturup in the Sea of Okhotsk, when he did not surface at his scheduled time after completing underwater operations.

On the same day, a telegraphist Alexander Turansky disappeared from the trawler Belinsky, traveling from S. Korea’s port of Pusan to Sakhalin, in the Sea of Japan supposedly after losing balance and falling overboard during a storm.

The two ships stopped their engines at the site of the accidents and remained there through both Saturday and Sunday, with the crews performing a search for their missing members. The crew aboard the ship Skopin was assisted in their search by sailors from another vessel Olkhovka.

The searches yielded no results and were halted Monday since the chances of finding the missing men alive were considered to be zero, Vladivostok’s Marine Rescue Center specialists said.