A diesel oil spill on Manila Bay that raises potential environmental and health hazards and threatens to ruin the capital’s vital fishing industry has “95-percent” evaporated, leaving only “a thin film” of fuel on the water’s surface, the governor of Cavite province claimed on Friday. “There were no evident signs of a fishkill, no damage to properties, although we are still waiting for the results of marine tests,” said Cavite Gov. Juanito Victor Remulla following a visit to the spill site in the town of Rosario on Friday. The tanker, which is now being held by the PCG, had docked at a Petron terminal in Rosario on Wednesday, unloading 2.3-million liters of diesel through an underwater pipeline. The spill was first spotted about 3 kilometers off the coastline of Rosario on Thursday afternoon.

Cinco, M., Santos, T., Olchondra, R., & Tubeza, P. (2013, august 10). Cavite gov downplays diesel spill destruction. Philippine Daily Inquirer, pp. A1, A2.