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The Japanese Coast Guard has called off its full-time search for Gulf Livestock 1, the live export ship that went missing in a typhoon in the East China Sea.
That leaves 40 crew members, including two New Zealanders, unaccounted for.
The family and friends of one of two Australian crew members, Will Mainprize, say that the decision to call off the search is premature.
One of those friends, Tom Suttor, works in the cattle export trade himself, and sailed with Mainprize on a number of occasions.
He speaks to Susie Ferguson.