Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "wrecks"

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    • 'Deepest shipwreck': US WWII ship found off Samar 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 26, 2022, on page A3)
      A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 metres below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American exploration team said. The USS Samuel ...

    • Divers haul ghost nets from submarine wreck in Greece's Ionian Sea 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 3, 2020, on page A14)
      Divers removed half a ton of abandoned fishing gear covering a British submarine that sank off the Greek island of Kefalonia in 1941 as well as other wrecks in an effort to protect the area’s loggerhead sea turtles, dolphins ...

    • Maritime expert: PH must stop China fishers from wrecking Panatag reefs 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel; Aning, Jerome (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 21, 2018, on page A5)
      If the Philippine government does not stop Chinese clam harvesters from destroying the reefs at Panatag Shoal, China would reclaim land on what is left of the shoal and transform it into another artificial island, a maritime ...

    • More than 40 migrants die in boat wreck off Italy 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 27, 2023, on page B4)
      More than 40 migrants, including a baby just a few months old, died after their overloaded boat sank early on Sunday in stormy seas off Italy's southern Calabria region, rescue services said. "At the current time, 80 people ...

    • Oil sludge removal starts in Ilocos 

      Sotelo, Yolanda; Cardinoza, Gabriel; Arzadon, Cristina; Balbin, Leoncio Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 1, 2013, on page A20)
      Using shovels, rakes and dust pans, and even spoons, government employees, residents, fishermen and volunteers from different towns of La Union tediously scooped and gathered the coagulated oil that had reached coastal ...

    • PCG dispels fear of oil spill off Batangas 

      Mallari, Delfin T. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2023, on page A6)
      A Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) official on Tuesday dismissed the concerns raised by environmental groups about an oil spill along the fragile Verde Island Passage (VIP) after a fishing vessel carrying 70,000 liters of ...

    • PH seas running out of fish, says BFAR exec 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 8, 2015, on page A20)
      More than a hundred fishermen, mostly from Pangasinan province, were out in the West Philippine Sea when Typhoon “Lando” (international name: Koppu) lashed Central and northern Luzon late last month. The sea was calm when ...

    • Scientists urge swift removal of oil from tanker 

      Burgos, Nestor Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 17, 2006, on page A15)
      Scientists from all over the country urged authorities to remove as soon as possible the remaining oil from the sunken tanker Solar I that was carrying bunker fuel for Petron. Dr. Jurgenne Primavera, Pew Fellow and Seafdec ...

    • Verde Island Passage faces new oil spill threat 

      Virola, Madonna T.; Mallari, Delfin T. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 29, 2023, on page A8)
      A fishing vessel carrying 70,000 liters of diesel nearly sank off the coast of Calatagan, Batangas, on Sunday, sparking fears of another oil spill in the fragile biodiversity of Verde Island Passage (VIP), an advocacy group ...