MV Princess of the Stars Capsized Off Romblon (Sulpicio Lines Helpline and Contact No With Updates)

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Update June 27, 2008:
1. Rescue operations have been halted because of 10 tons of poisonous pesticide in the ships cargo hold. The divers have been sent back to Manila for medical examinations.
2. Because of this, it will take longer for the bodies to be pulled out, infuriating the already emotionally-unstable relatives of those passengers aboard.
3. In the Board of Marines hearing today, Sulpicio Lines blamed PAGASA for being incompetent in reporting the news about typhoon Frank. Of course this is just a lame attempt from the company, and because of this stupid move, they only angered the investigation board.

Update June 26, 2008:
1. The total number of survivors is officially at 42, but there are no updates on the names from the Sulpicio Lines Website.
2. Some dead bodies found on the shores of Burias Island and other towns have already been buried, the townsmen saying that the bodies are already decaying and giving foul smell. Why haven’t Sulpicio Lines given aid to these cases? And why is our government unable to help them?
3. Families of the passengers were promised they will be taken to Cebu to identify the bodies of their relatives, but so far, all promises by the ship company are not being upheld.
4. The Search and Rescue Team still hopes to “rescue” passengers after finding air pockets inside the submerged ship. At this rate they have reported that it will take at least a month for them to get all the bodies out.

Update June 24, 2008:
Divers have already entered the submerged and overturned ship and have found many bodies. The rescue team said that they are still having problems because waves are still strong and it is dark inside the ship.

Update June 22, 2008:
MV Princess of the Stars of Sulpicio Lines capsized off Sibuyan Island in the central province of Romblon at 6 p.m. Saturday June 21, 2008. So far, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) and the Coast Guard has dispatched two ships, BRP Pampanga and BRP Davao del Norte, with two others being readied for deployment, to rescue the estimated 700 passengers which are aboard the ship. Reports confirmed that the ship MV Princess of the Stars are seen upside down with a big gaping hole in the middle. Reports said that there was engine failure and all of this happened at the height of the onslaught of Typhoon Frank (international codename Fengshen).

The rescue vessels of the Philippine Coast Guard have already reached the site after 3 p.m. on Sunday (today June 22, 2008), around one nautical mile (estimated at 1.5 kilometers) from the seashore of Sitio Cabitangahan, Taclobo, San Fernando town in Romblon. They confirmed that the passenger sea vessel has sunk. Sadly, the initial reports are that no signs of life are seen at the site of the tragedy. They are also currently searching the beaches near the site and have found some dead bodies. (Please see the report below for the complete description of the people found). Rescuers have tried knocking on the upturned portion (hull and keel) of the ship but so far have not heard any survivors therein.

Sulpicio Lines Helpdesk, Contact Numbers and Updates:
For those who would like to get updates on the situation of the people who boarded the ship M/V Princess of the Stars, you can reach the helpdesk of Sulpicio Lines personally at Pier 12 at Manila’s North Harbor.

Family members and relatives of the ship’s passengers can contact Sally Buaron via email at sally.buaron@sulpiciolines.com, or via mobile number 0917-8322233. You can also call these numbers:

Manila
(02) 242-4258
(02) 4745205

Cebu
(032) 5162728

Mobile
09174228344
09174228339

We can only hope that there are still survivors who have found refuge on the floating debris of the ship. For those of you who can read this, PLEASE DO PRAY FOR THE SURVIVORS and the rescuers.

Here’s the latest report of the tragedy taken from Inquirer.Net website.

Commander Antonio Cuasito, chief of staff of the Coast Guard District Central-Eastern Visayas said search and rescue vessel BRP Batangas manned by Lt. Commander Nilbert Aniversaryo first sighted the ill-fated vessel at 12:30 p.m.

“Coast Guard personnel on board the BRP Batangas sighted MV Princess of the Stars upturned and only her astern keel portion visible 1 nautical mile away from the shoreline of sitio Cabitangahan, Raclobo, San Fernando,” Cuasito said.

In Manila, Coast Guard spokesperson, Lt. Armand Balilo, said based on the initial reports he received, the rescue team failed to find any people or even flotation devices like lifejackets in the area. Rescuers, he said, have been scouring shoreline.

BRP Batangas left Cebu at 8 p.m. on Saturday, but it only arrived in the area at past 12 noon on Sunday because of the strong waves.

As of 3 p.m., rescuers from BRP Batangas tried to reach the astern keel portion of the vessel through two rubber boats.

Cuasito said they tried to knock at the astern keel portion in the hope that there were people alive inside.

Cuasito, however, said he had not received any report yet of any signs of life inside the vessel.

He said their divers would try to swim inside the vessel to check on trapped passengers.

As of 3 p.m., Cuasito said only two survivors were found, while six others were confirmed dead.

MV Princess of the Stars, owned by Sulpicio Lines, was carrying at least 747 passengers and crew when it left the port of Manila for Cebu on Friday. It was supposed to arrive 5 p.m. Saturday in Cebu when it encountered rough waters off Sibuyan Island in Romblon at around noon of Saturday and sent out a distress signal shortly before 5 p.m.

An elderly man and woman, believed to be a couple, were found dead with their hands tied to each other at the waters off San Fernando, Cuasito said.

A woman in her 30s with a ring marked “Rose” and who was wearing a black blouse and denim pants and another woman in her 50s with moles on the left cheek, left nose and below her right eye wearing brown pants were found dead in the shoreline of sitio Cabitangahan, Taclobo, San Fernando.

Cuasito said that in another coastal village of Mabini, a woman and a child were also found dead.

But two male survivors were found in the village of Espana but their identities were still not known, he said.

Over 200 worried relatives of passengers crowded the office of the Sulpicio Lines in Cebu to get updates on their loved ones, but officials of the company could not give immediate and specific reports.

Many relatives, angered by the lack of news on the whereabouts of their missing kin, blamed the shipping company for the tragedy.

The rescue efforts are being hampered by big waves caused by the storm.

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