Capitol: Vessel won’t leave until damages are paid for

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/20/2016

Local officials don’t want the Panamanian-registered cargo vessel MV Belle Rose to leave the country after it was refloated yesterday. The refloating came eight days after the vessel ran aground in the waters off a famous dive…

Long-term damage

Editorial 06/20/2016

Being a country composed of more than 7,000 islands occupied by residents that raise children who can swim and earn money diving for fish and pearls, the Philippines surprisingly registers more maritime tragedies than airline accidents. The…

MV Belle Rose moved slightly away from shoal

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/18/2016

THE vessel MV Belle Rose was moved backwards by a salvor company that tried to pull it towards deeper waters Saturday morning. Noel Kimmayong, marine superintendent of Malayan Towage and Salvaging Corp. confirmed the development in a…

MONAD SHOAL: Working against time

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/16/2016

Time is of the essence in averting more damage wrought by a foreign vessel to Monad Shoal; however, time may not be on the side of rescuers. As of yesterday, the Panama-registered cargo vessel MV Belle Rose…

SHIP DAMAGED CORALS

Jhunnex Napallacan, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/15/2016

MV Belle Rose hits 3 hectares of corals in Monad Shoal Officials of northern Cebu’s town of Daanbantayan will seek a still unspecified amount of compensation from the owners of the Panama-registered cargo vessel for the damage…

Diving in some parts of Monad Shoal temporarily suspended

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/15/2016

CEBU CITY–Diving activities in Monad Shoal off the waters of Malapascua Island in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu have been temporarily stopped after a cargo ship ran aground in the famous dive spot. “We have requested the Philippine…

Groups’ call: Continue Pescador oil spill probe

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/12/2016

TWO environmental groups are encouraging government agencies and the local government unit of Moalboal to thoroughly investigate the minimal oil spill off the shores of Pescador Island. Vince Cinches, Oceans campaigner of Greenpeace, said that although the…

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…

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…

Shark gives birth in Malapascua

Bencyrus Ellorin 03/06/2015

A rare photo of a Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus) giving birth in the Monad Shoal off Malapascua Island has awed the scientific community and revived calls to protect the important underwater mountain. The photo taken in 2013…

Shark meat factory owner insists they didn’t violate local law

Norman V. Mendoza 06/30/2014

The owner of a shark meat processing factory located in sitio Suba Masulog in barangay Suba-basbas, Lapu-Lapu City said he didn’t violate any law by receiving imported gummy shark meat  from Australia. “We asked the Bureau of…

Marine advocate, scuba diver Amores laid to rest in Mactan

Norman V. Mendoza 06/28/2014

Alfonso Amores, the reconstructive surgeon and environmentalist scuba diver who died in a diving accident in Surigao Del Sur, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mactan Memorial Gardens after a 10 a.m. Mass at at the…

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