Passenger ship with more than 700 onboard found capsized (MV PRincess of STARS)

[adrianvill]

Official: Hundreds may be trapped in capsized ferry - CNN.com
Official: Hundreds may be trapped in capsized ferry

MANILA, Philippines (CNN) -- Filipino authorities hope that 749 people missing after their ferry capsized in a typhoon are still alive inside an air pocket, the head of the country's Red Cross said Sunday.
Relatives wait in Manila port Sunday for news; few survivors have been rescued, officials said.

"It's a race against time," said Sen. Richard Gordon, who is head of the Philippines Red Cross.

"There is a bubble in the ship's bowels that are now on top of the surface of the water, and we are now trying to get assistance from our own government to get divers down into the vessel as soon as the seas calm," he said.

Typhoon Fengshen has killed between 120 and 150 people in the Philippines, he said, noting that he has not heard from Red Cross chapters in the country's remote areas.

The Filipino government may ask the U.S. Navy to send in seaborne helicopters and divers who can help "recover people who may be alive under the ship," Gordon said.

The crew of the MV Princess of Stars reported Saturday that it ran aground after its engine failed during its regular run between Manila and Cebu City, according to Vice Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo.

Radio contact with the ship was lost Saturday afternoon, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Armando Balilo said.

The ferry capsized near the central Philippine island of Sibuyan, carrying 130 crew members and more than 600 passengers, Gordon said. Only four survivors and 10 bodies have been found, he said.

The effort to reach the ferry has been slowed by rough seas stirred up by Typhoon Fengshen, which made landfall in the eastern Philippines early Saturday.

The ferry, which can weather rough seas, embarked during "Typhoon signal No. 1," which indicated there was no impending danger, Gordon said.

"But unfortunately the typhoon suddenly turned and it [became] Typhoon signal No. 3, which has now created a really, really bad problem," he said. "After that, I think the ship ran into some problems -- we're not sure about that yet -- and it drifted to seashore, ran aground and eventually capsized."

The families of the ferry passengers are "very bitter about the situation," he said.

"Obviously there's a lot of angry people among the ship's families, and I just spoke with them," he said, adding that he told grieving relatives that the Red Cross is there to "alleviate human suffering and we're doing our best right now to try to get that done."

"But we still have to reckon with the fact that the typhoon is still ravaging central Luzon."

[Motownkid]

wa mani gamit numbera. "the no. u dialed is under repair" man...

mao ba.. mao ra man nay gihatag sa news pod gud.

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naa pa gyud diay lain barko nalunod... duol raba pod sa nalunoran sa M/V Princess of the Stars... naunsa naman tawn ni oi...


Fishing vessel sinks; around 100 men missing

Around a hundred crew members of a fishing vessel are missing after their boat went missing in the same sea where M/V Princess of the Stars sank Saturday.

Five crew members escaped from the sinking vessel owned by the CYC Fishing Ventures. They contacted their office in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental Sunday noon.

The five men--Sandy Sismohen, Edgardo Baflor, Eduardo Villaester, Vicente Batiktik, and Jobert Sineneng--were stranded at Sapatos Island in Masbate province after water entered their vessel, wich sank at the Visayan Sea Saturday.

The vessel left Cadiz City Friday evening for a fishing trip at the Visayan Sea, but CYC Fishing Ventures' Robert Puey said the last contact they had with the vessel was at 4 a.m. Saturday.

The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), the Masbate local government, and the fishing company are now coordinating for search-and-rescue operations for the missing crew.

The agencies are also coordinating to bring the five men back to Cadiz City.

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[uwagan]

naa news after kapusolympics.. maminaw ta! mayntag dghan nka survive

[tagur0]

kalooy pd. hinaot daghan survivors ani.

[Chipmunk888]

i remember poseidon, though another cause... (BIG SIGH).


LORD PLEASE HELP THEM.

[radiostar]

daghan daghan na survivor, balita sa dyab ganina mga 7pm

[JeffCee]

daghan daghan na survivor, balita sa dyab ganina mga 7pm

sure? or was that the list of passengers on board?

[adrianvill]

[skadiboy]

dugaya sad sa tv patrol ois....... nahan nako makabati sa updates

[chad_tukes]

yeah me too... nag atang pud ko sa TV Patrol Linggo