Body of missing Korean diver found in waters of Panglao, Bohol

Doris C. Bongcac 05/03/2023

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The body of a missing Korean national was retrieved in the waters near Panglao town in Bohol province on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. In a social media post, the municipality of Panglao said…

Osmeña slams Fernando for planning to divert Cebu’s funds for Manila

Morexette Marie B. Erram 06/11/2018

BRT Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña slammed the move of Marikina Rep. Bayani Fernando in asking the House of Representatives to transfer the funds for the BRT project in Cebu City to the BRT project in Metro…

Canadian diver found dead

Benjie Talisic 03/18/2018

POLICE at Daanbantayan town in northern Cebu are investigating the cause of a female Canadian’s death during a diving activity at past 11 a.m. last Saturday. SPO4 Carlos Condino of the Daanbantayan police said Canadian Jenny Gen…

Diver faints during Boniel search

Norman Mendoza 06/21/2017

  A diver from Bien Unido, Bohol who joined the search and retrieval operation for missing Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Boniel was rushed to a decompression chamber in Mandaue City after he was found half-conscious underwater at…

Diver treated for decompression sickness

Norman Mendoza 06/21/2017

A diver of Bien Unido town, Bohol province who joined the search and retrieval operation for mayor Gisela Boniel was rushed to a decompression chamber in Mandaue City after he lost air underwater. Mel Quiao, one of…

Advocates push for blast-free fish markets

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 11/01/2015

Various stakeholders in the campaign against illegal fishing agreed to work to ensure that fish sold in markets, especially Pasil fish market in Cebu City, would be dynamite-free. Doing this would require training consumers and fish inspectors…

Blast fishing – an unstoppable scourge?

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 10/26/2015

Many of us might not have had the opportunity to meet Al Bernard Coyoca.  His face now haunts all of us, a brutal victim of a scourge afflicting our oceans and our future – dynamite fishing. A…

Police inquiry sought on master diver’s death

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/13/2015

THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) called on the provincial police to investigate last week’s death of a master diver, a suspected victim of dynamite fishing in Daanbantayan town. The board also passed a resolution strongly urging the…

Japanese diver dies off Olango

Norman V. Mendoza 07/29/2015

A  64-year-old Japanese tourist died  while scuba diving off Olango Island in Lapu-Lapu City last Monday afternoon. Kenichi Nakaizuma, a native of Yamaguchi, Japan, was diving with  Dino Ompad, operations manager of Scuba Star based in barangay…

German dead after dive in Kalanggaman island

Apple Ta-as 05/10/2015

Police are investigating the circumstances behind the death of a 54-year-old German after she dived into the seawaters of Kalanggaman islet, Palompon, Leyte, Saturday morning. Bettina Kohl Dumke was scuba diving with her 54-year-old husband Karl-Erich in…

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