Sailor survives shark attack after fire on boat in East China Sea, four other crew missing Lucky escape... The unnamed sailor was bitten by a shark but managed to survive. AN INDONESIAN sailor was attacked by a shark after his boat apparently caught fire in the East China Sea but miraculously survived. Four of his fellow crewmen are still missing. Taiwan's coastguard said they were informed by their Japanese counterparts Saturday noon that the 26-tonne Taiwanese fishing boat "Cheng Tsai Li" was drifting 65 km northeast of Miyako-jima, an island in Japan's Okinawa prefecture. An Indonesian sailor aboard the fishing vessel was rescued by another Taiwanese fishing boat, the Taiwan coastguard said. "He was injured, suffering from shark bites," coastguard spokesman Hsieh Ching-chin told AFP. No details of the attack or the man's injuries were available. Two coastguard vessels from Taiwan and two from Japan were mobilised to search for the four missing crewmen - the Taiwanese skipper, a Taiwanese sailor and two Indonesian sailors. As of now, we have had no luck. We're racing against time as the weather is cold," Hsieh said. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear but it seemed that the Cheng Tsai Li had been hit by a fire, he said