Browsing Manila Bulletin by Subject "salvaging"

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    • Avoiding oil spill first step in salvaging sunken ship 

      Newman, Minerva B. C. (Manila Bulletin, June 29, 2019, on page 5)
      The salvage company that will refloat the cargo ship that sank at a private port here will concentrate first on recovering any fuel oil left in the vessel to prevent it from contaminating the surrounding waters. The M/V ...

    • Estancia Oil Spill Cleanup Inadequate 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, January 9, 2014, on page 9)
      Ybañez stressed that he was not really satisfied with Kuan Yu's performance during a January 6 briefing of multi-sectoral agency overseeing the oil spill response efforts. The combined force of strong winds and big waves ...

    • Miriam: US must pay Tubbataha 

      Casayuran, Mario B. (Manila Bulletin, February 14, 2013, on page 3)
      The United States government is responsible for the destruction of parts of the Tubbataha Reef near Palawan and is therefore obligated to make reparations for such destruction. Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, an international ...

    • PCG coordinates with Singapore to probe boat ramming incident 

      Sadongdong, Martin (Manila Bulletin, October 8, 2023, on page 4)
      The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) deployed a team to Singapore to investigate a tanker vessel tagged in a deadly ramming incident near Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough or Panatag Shoal) in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) last ...

    • Rare shark spotted in PH waters 

      Catoto, Roel (Manila Bulletin, December 21, 2017, on page 11)
      Marine scientists onboard a research vessel owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen has spotted a large bluntnose sixgill shark lurking around one of the wartime battleship wreckage in Ormoc Bay early this ...

    • Salvage effort under way for sunken submarine with 53 on board 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, April 26, 2021, on page 4)
      The hunt for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew turned into a salvage effort Sunday after recovered debris suggested it broke apart as it sank off the coast of Bali. Warships, planes and hundreds of military ...

    • TPAMB oks Tubbataha salvage operations 

      Antonio, Raymund F. (Manila Bulletin, February 7, 2013, on page 3)
      Crane ship Borneo has finally been given the go signal to drop anchor on protected Tubbataha Reef and start operations to extract damaged U.S. naval vessel, USS Guardian from the area. Said extraction plans were given the ...

    • Tubbataha reef diving season begins 

      Manongdo, Jenny F. (Manila Bulletin, March 2, 2013, on page 5)
      The diving season has begun at the tubbataha reef and this won't be unduly affected by salvage operations to remove the grounded US Navy minesweeper, the USS Guardian, from the one of the best diving sites in the world, ...

    • Tubbataha update 

      Antonio, Raymund (Manila Bulletin, March 4, 2013, on page 6)
      The head task Force Tubbataha said the March 23 target of the salvage personnel hired by U.S. government to dismantle the USS Guardian and remove it from the Tubbataha Reef is feasible. "They (salvors) works fast and very ...