The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has ended its search and retrieval operations without recovering any of the 14 persons aboard the fishing vessel F/V Liberty 5, which sank in the waters of Occidental Mindoro following a collision with a Hong Kong-registered carrier vessel more than a week ago. An islander plane scoured the waters within and near where the Metro Manila-bound fishing vessel with 12 crewmen and two passengers went down on June 27 for the last time on Tuesday before the PCG decided to terminate the operations, according to its spokesman Commodore Armand Balilo. “The Coast Guard Aviation Force [CGAF] is prepping to conduct another aerial surveillance in the vicinity waters off Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro today, or the last day of full search and retrieval operations, to aid the 14 missing fishermen/passengers of FV Liberty 5,” Balilo said in a message before the plane made its sortie.

Acosta, R. (2020, July 8). Sea search for missing victims of Mindoro boat collision ends with no recovery-PCG. Business Mirror, p. A4.