Man, 6 kids from Bohol rescued after banca capsizes off Cordova
All six children and a man were rescued to safety after more than three hours of staying afloat in the waters since their motorized banca from
A passing motor tanker, MT Maginoo, which was carrying bunker fuel from
MT Maginoo is owned by Herma Shipping and Transport Corporation based in
From the Ludo wharf, a rubber raft of the Coast Guard’s BRP Batangas vessel fetched and took the survivors to a wharf behind the Malacañang sa Sugbo.
Captain Rolando Legazpi, deputy commander of the Central Eastern Visayas Coast Guard District, said they then facilitated the return of the children-survivors, aged 11 to 15, to Cuaming Island of Inabangga town in
The lone elder survivor, Arnold Saldua, as of yesterday afternoon chose to remain in
Saldua said they sailed off Cuaming supposedly to fetch his nephew in Cordova who earlier texted him about the wedding of his (Saldua) son at 10am yesterday.
When the banca M/B Jay Paul crossed the channel off Cordova, at around
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