BACOLOD CITY – The Coast Guard Sub-Station (CGSS) Pulupandan in Negros Occidental rescued 11 passengers of a boat that sank in the sea between Bago City, Negros Occidental and Guimaras Island on Friday, May 15. Investigation said that the boat with passengers attending the burial of a relative...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The MV Sug Adventure, a passenger vessel, collided with a motorboat in the sea of Santa Cruz Island here on Friday night, April 10. An initial report by the Philippine Coast Guard said the MV Sug Adventure was traversing the sea when a motor banca suffered a carburetor...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Department of Transportation (DOTR) has ordered a complete maritime safety audit and the grounding of the entire passenger fleet of Aleson Shipping Lines following the sinking of the MV Trisha Kirsten 3 on Monday in Basilan. The order was announced by DOTR Secretary Giovanni...
LEGAZPI CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard District Bicol (PCG-5) confirmed on Thursday that two died and two are still missing after a motor banca capsized in the sea of Aroroy, Masbate on Wednesday. In a phone interview, PCG Bicol commander Commodore Ivan Roldan said initial accounting recorded...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Weesam Express, a fastcraft transporting passengers from Zamboanga to Basilan and vice versa, sunk while docked at the port of Zamboanga at dawn on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Vessel captain Samuel Sabanal said the boat crew initially observed water seeping into the vessel at around 3 a.m.,...
REAL, Quezon - Forty-one passengers were rescued after a passenger ship ran aground near the Port of Real in Barangay Ungos here on Tuesday morning, Sept. 23. The roll-on, roll-off vessel carrying 41 passengers and seven rolling cargoes was about to depart from the port bound for Polillo Island...
MAUBAN, Quezon – A 23-year-old laborer drowned and four individuals were rescued after their banca sank in Barangay Santa Lucia here on Sunday, March 30. The victim was identified as Jericho Agnasin. Rescued were Merwill, 28; Angelie, 26, and her twin children Adreil and Avriel. Bantay Dagat...
ILOILO CITY – Nine students were rescued after a small motor banca (wooden-hulled) boat capsized in Capiz province on Wednesday, Oct. 29, due to strong waves generated by super typhoon "Leon." The Ivisan Municipal Police Station (MPS) confirmed the incident but did not disclose the...
CEBU CITY – A boatman died and 20 passengers were rescued in accidents in the sea of Panglao, Bohol on Thursday, September 12. The series of unfortunate incidents happened shortly before noon in Cat Island, according to Ensign Abel Lomboy, spokesperson of the Philippine Coast Guard-Central...
ILOILO CITY – Nine of the 10 survivors of a deadly sea mishap have returned to the island town of Caluya in Antique. “They have been ferried back to Caluya,” said Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Western Visayas Regional Director Raul Fernandez on Friday, August 30. SURVIVORS of two boats that...
ILOILO CITY – Three persons died and seven remain missing after two boats bound for Caluya Island in Antique province capsized in the sea between Romblon and Boracay on Monday, August 26. THE body of a man who died after two boats bound for Antique sank on August 26 is recovered in Romblon....
CEBU CITY – Six persons were killed and six others were rescued after a fishing boat caught fire in the sea of Naga City, southern Cebu on Wednesday night, June 5. RESCUERS from Coast Guard-Central Visayas unload the bodies of two fishermen who were among the six persons who perished after a...
