Divers search for dozens missing in Phillippines ferry crash

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http://news.yahoo.com/divers-search-phil...07319.html

[haikuman]

Sad to say the Philippines has a long history of Ferry disasters.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23729996


The 11,000 tonne ferry was 40 years old, and operated by a Chinese-owned company called 2Go, reports the BBC's South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head.

The company became the largest ferry operator in the Philippines three years ago, following a merger of several smaller firms, our correspondent adds.

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PHILIPPINE FERRY DISASTERS
1987: Dona Paz ferry sinks after colliding with a fuel tanker, 4,341 people die.
2008: The ferry MV Princess of the Stars capsizes during a typhoon, killing nearly 800.

Joy Villages, an official at the coastguard's public affairs office headquarters in Manila, told AFP it was too early to determine the cause of Friday's collision.

She said the Thomas Aquinas was a "roll-on, roll-off" ferry that transports vehicles and is commonly used in the Philippines.

Maritime accidents are quite frequent in the Philippine archipelago because of tropical storms, badly maintained passenger boats and weakly enforcedf safety regulations.




PHILIPPINE FERRY DISASTERS
1987: Dona Paz ferry sinks after colliding with a fuel tanker, 4,341 people die.
2008: The ferry MV Princess of the Stars capsizes during a typhoon, killing nearly 800.

[Grateful11]

4341 people died in 1987. Who many people do these types of ferries hold?

[haikuman]

"4341 people died in 1987. Who many people do these types of ferries hold?"

Your questions are answered here Grateful11. The vessel was clearly overloaded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dona_Paz

Class & type: Passenger ferry
Tonnage: 2,602
1,192 (deadweight)
Length: 93.1 m (305 ft)
Beam: 13.6 m (45 ft)
Speed: 18 knots
Capacity: 1,518 passengers
Crew: 66


http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/467633/hist...hilippines

MANILA, Philippines—The sinking of a ferry following a collision with a cargo ship is the latest of many deadly accidents to have plagued the Philippines’ sea transport industry.

Inter-island ferries are one of the main forms of transport for millions of Filipinos across the archipelago, mainly because they are cheaper than air travel.

However, bad weather, particularly during the typhoon season, as well as poor maintenance, overloading of vessels and lax enforcement of safety regulations have led to many disasters.

Here is a list of major accidents in the Philippines over the past three decades:

Click the link to see the list of disasters. It is criminal that there have been so many.

[Grateful11]

Overloaded by about 3x.

[RAMd®d]

It is criminal that there have been so many.

It's a terrible tragedy when natural phenomenons take a life, let alone thousands of lives.

But these are most often preventable, shameful criminal acts, allowed to continue.