{"id":105699,"date":"2017-06-13T05:12:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=105699"},"modified":"2017-06-13T05:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T09:12:53","slug":"brp-davao-del-sur-completes-first-mission-in-benham-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/13\/brp-davao-del-sur-completes-first-mission-in-benham-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"BRP Davao Del Sur completes first mission in Benham Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Territorial waters of the Philippines. The Philippine Rise is located directly east of Luzon. (Photo by Roel Balingit (username: Namayan), CC BY 2.5.<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA — Barely a month after her commissioning, the BRP Davao Del Sur (LD-602), the country’s second strategic sealift vessel (SSV), has successfully conducted her first major mission by transporting the military and civilian divers who successfully planted at a shallow portion of the Benham Rise (now known as the Philippine Rise) Monday morning.<\/p>\n

This was confirmed by Navy spokesperson Capt. Lued Lincuna in a message to the PNA Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Yes, (the Benham\/Philippine Rise) mission was her first,” he said.<\/p>\n

BRP Davao Del Sur left the PT PAL (Persero) shipyard in Surabaya, Indonesia in May 4 and arrived in the Philippines last May 8.<\/p>\n

She was commissioned at Sasa Wharf, Davao City during the Navy’s 119th founding anniversary with President Rodrigo Duterte as the guest-of-honor and speaker.<\/p>\n

BRP Davao Del Sur is the sister-ship of the BRP Tarlac (LD-601) which commissioned in May of last year.<\/p>\n

The ship and her crew departed Pier 13, Manila South Harbor last June 8 with around 100 divers headed by Army Scout Ranger Major Christoper Constantino.<\/p>\n

The military officer and his team strapped a fiber-glass laminated Philippine flag 57 meters below the surface.<\/p>\n

Prior to this, a ship of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) lowered on Sunday a cement base where the flag and its pole were supposed to be hoisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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