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By The Mouse Potato | June 22, 2008
The weekends here was nothing but a very very dull one. Geez, it was raining since the start of this week erratically and to top it all, the storm came into full blast not until Saturday evening.
The storm’s name is “Frank” here in our country with an international codename: Fengshen. The storm was really a bully. It has very gusty winds and constant rain which cause a lot of turmoil in many places already. Many are dead in many places and my God, a passenger ferry of Sulpicio sank. You can read this excerpt from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Ferry carrying over 800 sinking in storm–officials
By Joel Guinto
Agence France-Presse, INQUIRER.net
First Posted 08:25:00 06/22/2008MANILA, Philippines– (UPDATE 3) A ferry carrying over 800 passengers was sinking off the coast of the central Philippines after being battered by huge waves caused by a typhoon, reports and officials said Sunday.
“This is already a confirmed report,” Nanette Tansingco, mayor of the coastal town of San Fernando in Romblon province, said of the sinking.
The M/V Princess of the Star sent a distress signal late on Saturday from the area after becoming stranded when Typhoon Fengshen swept across the country.
“I sent a speed boat to check on the report, and they saw the boat submerged with a hole in the hull. They saw the name Princess of the Star and there were at least four bodies there,” the mayor told dzMM radio.
The ship was reported to have capsized at around 6 p.m. Saturday off Sibuyan Island, Lieutenant Colonel Edgard Arevalo, spokesman of the Philippine Navy, told INQUIRER.net.
The vessel encountered engine trouble, lost power, and was “dead in the water,” Office of Civil Defense Administrator Glenn Rabonza said in a phone interview.
Three Navy vessels have been readied to rescue the passengers and crew. The vessel nearest the area, the PG378 stationed in Masbate province, had to abort its rescue mission due to “gigantic waves, pounding rain, and gusty winds,” Arevalo said.
“We are waiting until the weather is at least permissive [before resuming rescue efforts],” Arevalo said in a text message.
“We don’t want to complicate the problem if our personnel will later be the ones needing rescue,” he added.
According to the Coast Guard, the ferry’s manifest recorded 702 passengers including 50 children as well as 100 crew. The civil defense office said the ship carried 626 passengers and 121 crew members.
The ferry capsized about three to four kilometers (1.8 to 2.4 miles) off San Fernando town, local radio reports said.
“I have not seen any survivors,” resident Melanie Rotoni told dzMM radio.
“Life jackets and debris litter the store. I saw a dead woman in her 40s along the shore but she was the only body I saw. There is no one else.”
Very sad indeed. it seems though that every time our country gets hit by a storm people tend to die as if it (our country) gets weaker and weaker by the moment.
I wonder what happened to those friends of mine in distant places? hope they are doing fine as well… We at our home also encountered our share of events because of this storm. Glad that we still have water, electricity and internet connection… I guess maybe those I know at Malabon might be floating in boats already… sigh.
Getting back to the ferry issue.. I share my condolences to those unfortunate people who might have lost their love ones… I mean, that is to be expected… sure enough some will survive and I wish that there will be many… And to those at Sulpicio… sailing on a stormy weather? what were you guyz thinking? MONEY???? Hmmpp…
Hope that those who own the Sulpicio line will have their relatives suffer the same fate as those of our “kababayans” who wished only to get to places..
Well, gtg..
Thanks for listening..
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June 25th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
do not underestimate the talents of Malabon people in terms of surviving flood..hihihi..we got used to it. but fortunately i’m renting an apartment in Pasig..no flood at all..hooray!!!