Φιλιππίνες: Βύθιση επιβατηγού πλοίου μετά από σύγκρουση με εμπορικό

[kyr1]

Από τη Ναυτεμπορική :

 

Δεκαεπτά άνθρωποι έχασαν τη ζωή τους, ενώ εκατοντάδες διασώθηκαν μετά από σύγκρουση επιβατηγού με 700 επιβάτες με εμπορικό πλοίο.

Το επιβατηγό, MV Thomas Aquinas, άρχισε να βυθίζεται μετά τη σύγκρουσή του με το εμπορικό πλοίο την Παρασκευή το βράδυ, κοντά στην πόλη Σέμπου, αναφέρουν τοπικοί αξιωματούχοι.

Πλοιάρια της ακτοφυλακής και του ναυτικού των Φιλιππίνων ακολουθήθηκαν από αλιευτικά σκάφη στην προσπάθεια διάσωσης των επιβατών.

Το πλοίο κατευθυνόταν προς τη Σέμπου, ενώ βυθίστηκε εντός 30 λεπτών μετά τη σύγκρουση.

 

 

Ενώ από τη Cebu Daily News τα πράγματα φαίνονται χειρότερα :

 

Hundreds missing as passenger vessel sinks

 

Rescue efforts were ongoing last night after a passenger vessel with about 700 passengers sank after colliding head on with a cargo vessel in Lawis Ledge off the coast of Talisay City, Cebu around 8 p.m. Commander Weniel Azcuna, chief of the Cebu station of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), said the passenger vessel MV St. Thomas Aquinas of 2Go collided with Sulpicio Express 7, a cargo vessel of the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corp. The 2Go vessel was carrying 692 passengers and crew while the cargo vessel had 18 crewmembers, the PCG said. An initial batch of 13 passengers of the 2Go vessel were pulled out of the water by local fishermen. A survivor, Aldrin Raman of Buenavista, Agusan del Norte, said their passenger ship left Nasipit-Butuan at noon and was expected to dock at 9 p.m. in Cebu city. He said lights in the vessel suddenly went out, prompting passengers to panic and grab life vests. He said he waited for the ship to submerge before he started swimming away. He said he grabbed a styrofoam floater and was able to save two children before they were rescued by fisherfolk. The PCG is leading rescue efforts with disaster units of Talisay, Naga and Cebu cities. Lawis Ledge is a few kilometers from the Cebu City port, near the southern entrance of the Mactan Channel. MV Thomas Aquinas left the Nasipit port in Agusan del Norte around 12 noon enroute to Manila via Cebu. As of 11 p.m. scores of passengers were rescued. MV Thomas Aquinas' port of origin was Surigao City where it left for Nasipit at 11 p.m. last Thursday.

 

 

[kyr1]

629 οι διασωθέντες, 28 οι νεκροί και 213 οι αγνοούμενοι είναι ο νεώτερος απολογισμός.

 

The captain of the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas, which was approaching the port late Friday, ordered the ship abandoned when it began listing and then sank just minutes after collision with the MV Sulpicio Express, coast guard deputy chief Rear Adm. Luis Tuason said.

The ferry carried 752 passengers, including children and infants, and 118 crew. The number is higher than the 841 earlier reported by ferry owner 2Go, Tuason said.

He said that 213 are still missing, some of them possibly trapped inside the vessel that sank in waters about 33 meters (100 feet) deep off Talisay city in Cebu province, about 570 kilometers (350 miles) south of Manila.

Twenty-eight people, including children, were confirmed dead and 629 passengers and crew had been rescued.

Tuason said that navy divers recovered at least four more bodies from the underwater wreck early Saturday. Reporters at the site, about two kilometers (1.25 miles) from shore, saw the bodies coated with fuel and oil that spilled from the ferry.

"There could be more bodies there, but there were ropes inside that our divers could get entangled in," Tuason said.

He said that the coast guard will send more divers with deep-water equipment to help retrieve bodies.

In a statement, 2Go said the ferry "was reportedly hit" by the cargo vessel "resulting in major damage that led to its sinking." An investigation will begin after the rescue operation, the coast guard said.

Danny Palmero, a former fisherman, said he was with friends who responded to the ferry's distress call and rescued seven people on their motorized outrigger canoe.

"I saw many flares being shot," he said by telephone. "As a former nautical student, I knew it was a distress signal."

He said a fisherman arrived at the shore with three survivors and told the crowd gathered that there was a collision and that there were many people in the water.

"We just picked up the survivors and left the dead in the water," he said. "I heard screams and crying."

The crewmen of the cargo ship were throwing life jackets to the people who jumped into the dark waters, he said.

He said there is a large gash at the front of the cargo vessel. "It now has a mouth," he said, describing the ship's bow.

Hundreds of passengers jumped into the ocean as the ship started to sink, according to survivors. Many of the passengers were asleep and others struggled to find their way in the dark.

Jerwin Agudong said he and other passengers jumped overboard in front of the cargo vessel after the ferry began taking on water and the crew distributed life jackets.

He told radio station DZBB that some people were trapped and he saw bodies in the water.

"It seems some were not able to get out. I pity the children. We saw dead bodies on the side, and some being rescued," he said.

He said the ferry was entering the pier when the cargo vessel, which was on the way out, suddenly collided with it.

"One of the persons who jumped with us hit his head on metal. He is shaking and he is bloodied," Agudong said.

The 138-meter (455-foot) -long ferry sank in about 30 minutes, he said.

The youngest among those rescued was an 11-month baby, news reports said.

The ferry came from Nasipit in Agusan del Sur province in the southern Philippines on a daylong journey, Agudong said.

 

[proud_ionian]

η sulpicio εχει παραδοση σε ατυχη συμβαντα.

[kyr1]

Το όνομα ταιριάζει είναι και η ίδια εταιρεία άραγε ; Συμφωνα με το equasis εχει φύγει από τον  Det Norske Veritas από το 2008.

 

Για να βυθιστεί πάντως σε 30 λεπτά το φέρρυ δε θέλω να σκέφτομαι τι γινόταν απάνω.

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Edited August 17, 2013 by kyr1

[Stefanos]

τα ίδια και τα ίδια,καλά δεν θα μπορούσε κάποτε να επέμβει ο ΙΜΟ η κάποιος άλλος παγκοσμοιος οργανισμός να κλείσει όλες αυτές τις κ@λο εταιρείες να πάει φυλάκη τους εμπλέκομενους και να στείλει για σκράπ όλες αυτές τις σαπίλες που βουλιάζουν για πλάκα έλεος πια κάθε τόσο και μια πολύνεκρη τραγωδία,πόσο ζώα πρέπει να είναι και όλοι εκεί ώστε να μην αντιδρά κανείς?

 

επίσης ο dnv ένας απο τους πιο κορυφαίους νηογνόμωνες στο κόσμο είναι δυνατόν να έχει στη κλάση του φιλλιπινέζικα πλοία? έστω και ως το 2008 το συγκεκριμενο

Edited August 17, 2013 by Stefanos

[MILTIADIS]

Το μεσημερι το δελτιο του mega μιλουσε με εκπληξη για''40 χρονο ferry στις Φιλιππινες που εκτελουσε ακομα δρομολογα''.Που να ξεραν οτι στο Αιγαιο κυκλοφορουν και παλιοτερα..

[Stefanos]

η sulpicio εχει παραδοση σε ατυχη συμβαντα.

βασικα οχι μονο συμβαντα,τα καταστροφικοτερα ναυαγια στο πλανητη εχει κανει και πρέπει να εχει στο ενεργητικό της χωρίς υπερβολή ενα αριθμό θυμάτων όσο μια  πόλη

το BBC αναφέρει ότι το πλοίο το διαχειριζόταν κινέζικη εταρεία η οποία είχε αποροφησει μικρότερες προφανώς και την εν λόγω εταιρεία που μαλλον καπου ειχα διαβασει ότι μετα το κατακραυγη που εφαγε της απαγορευτηκε να κανει ταξιδια,μαλλον όμως η νεα κοινοπραξια συνεχίζει το εργο που κληρονομησε και οι φιλιππινεζοι συνεχίζουν να ταξιδεύουν με ασφάλεια

Edited August 17, 2013 by Stefanos

[kyr1]

Στις Φιλιππίνες αναρωτιούνται τι μπορεί να πήγε στραβά και προκληθηκε αυτό το δυστυχημα. Κάποια πρώτα στοιχεία παίρνουμε από αυτό το άρθρο ενώ οι νεκροί εχουν φτάσει τους 50 και οι αγνοούμενοι τους 82.

 

Under navigational rules, both vessels must steer to the right if they are on a collision course, Commodore William Melad, head of the coast guard district in the central Visayas region, told Reuters.

 

The ferry repeatedly blew its horn and sent warning signals, said 2GO Group Inc, which owns the ferry. "They blew their horns several times before the collision," Bimsy Mapa, spokesman for 2GO Group, told Reuters.

 

Another 2GO Group official, speaking on condition of anonymity because a formal inquiry into the accident is pending, said the ferry could not veer right because the water was too shallow on that side.

 

"Our options were to turn right or left, but we couldn't turn right because we would hit shallow waters so we veered left," the 2GO Group official said.

 

Officials at Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corp, which owns the cargo ship, declined to respond to requests for comment. The vessel remains in Cebu, a gaping hole in its bow.

 

"We need to review whether both ships followed regulations," said Melad, the Cebu coast guard chief. "If they are approaching each other, there should be a safe distance. Otherwise, you signify intention to move to the right and the other should move to the right also, so that there won't be any collision."

 

 

Ο proud ειχε δίκιο που μιλούσε για τη sulpicio καθώς

 

The cargo vessel's owners were formerly known as Sulpicio Lines Inc, which owned the MV Dona Paz ferry that collided with a tanker in the Sibuyan Sea in the country's main Luzon island region in December 1987, killing 4,375 on the ferry and 11 of the tanker's 13-man crew. That ranks as the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster.

 

 

Ενώ εδώ αναφέρεται ότι πληθαίνουν οι φωνές που ζητούν εθνικοποίηση των ακτοπλοϊκών εταιρειών

 

Calls are growing for ferry operations in the Philippines to be nationalized in the wake of the latest disaster which is likely to have claimed more than 100 lives.

 

The Philippine Coast Guard said late yesterday its search and rescue work will switch to become recovery and retrieval of bodies 48 hours after the grim collision between the Sulpicio Express 7 cargo ship and the ferry MV St Thomas Aquinas, the latter sinking quickly after being struck.

 

Nasty weather has hampered the search and rescue effort as well as the clean up with 120,000 litres of bunker fuel from the ferry potentially hitting the beaches of the central island of Cebu.

 

As of 5am local time 38 were confirmed dead and another 82 missing in the latest ferry disaster to have struck the Philippines, a nation with the horrendous claim to have suffered the worst maritime disaster in peace time with the sinking of the Dona Paz in the 1980s taking some 4,300 lives.

 

With maritime disasters all too common in the archiplelago, including previous mishaps involving the two companies involved in Friday’s disaster, 2Go and Sulpicio, there have been calls for ferry operations to be brough under government control.