SYDNEY, Australia - Australian officials said on Wednesday that at least 125 survivors, most of them reported to be women and children, have been rescued after a ship trying to reach Australia with apparent asylum seekers capsized in the seas south of Indonesia. It was the second major naval accident in less than a week involving asylum seekers in the same area. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement that the survivors had been pulled from the vessel by an Australian naval patrol boat and several merchant vessels that responded to the ship's distress call early Wednesday. At least one person died in the accident about 115 miles south of the main Indonesian island of Java, the agency said. Earlier Wednesday, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service said up to 150 people may have been on board the ship. Wednesday's accident comes just days after Australia said it was abandoning the search for survivors of the previous wreck, a rickety fishing boat that capsized in rough seas. As many as 90 people are believed to have died. Last December, around 200 asylum seekers were believed to have died after their overcrowded ship sank off Java. The current prime minister, Julia Gillard, also of Labor, succeeded Mr. Rudd and inherited a significant increase in the number of boat arrivals.