{"id":123690,"date":"2017-10-14T02:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123690"},"modified":"2017-10-14T02:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T06:29:23","slug":"freighter-sinks-off-philippine-coast-10-crew-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/14\/freighter-sinks-off-philippine-coast-10-crew-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Freighter sinks off Philippine coast; 10 crew missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123691\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9619531936_d28fcdbf81_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123691\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9619531936_d28fcdbf81_z.jpg\" alt=\"A Hong Kong-registered freighter sank in rough seas off the Philippine coast, leaving 10 crewmembers missing, Japan's coast guard said. (Photo by Sam Churchill\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9619531936_d28fcdbf81_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/9619531936_d28fcdbf81_z-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hong Kong-registered freighter sank in rough seas off the Philippine coast, leaving 10 crewmembers missing, Japan&#8217;s coast guard said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/samchurchill\/9619531936\/in\/photolist-fE3BGU-59Bd5L-2aHNcB-59wZo2-qq82nV-8YnrFh-8Yn5YU-92Knta-8Yjmpc-8YiSCv-82npNe-8Yj4at-8xm49a-92NuSw-cv8U6W-8Yjk5z-rEqjLn-W8heYL-aUTSa-fE3CqG-dLxK92-8YmUU3-9fza8v-8YjoSc-8Yn5pf-acKXBM-8YjeJg-8YiVR2-8Yjp7v-9ZuzsJ-8YjjwZ-92KnVB-jaZM-NfHBEM-8YiRLX-8YjpG6-8YnqBN-HmbMAW-8YjnjK-6MfwV9-VcLhzg-8Yn41J-8Yje7a-8Yj4sK-8YmWZw-92KkWz-8Ynqgb-8Yjf1k-8YiTNH-8Ynopw\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/samchurchill\/\">Sam Churchill\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 A Hong Kong-registered freighter sank in rough seas off the Philippine coast, leaving 10 crewmembers missing, Japan&#8217;s coast guard said.<\/p>\n<p>It said a distress call was received early Friday from the 33,205-ton Emerald Star from a location about 150 nautical miles (280 kilometres) off the Philippines&#8217; eastern coast. It said 26 crewmembers, all Indians, were aboard.<\/p>\n<p>The coast guard said three passing freighters rescued 16 of the crewmembers from the sea, and a fourth freighter later also joined the search in the area where the Hong Kong ship is believed to have sunk.<\/p>\n<p>Two patrol aircraft dispatched by the coast guard are searching from the sky, while three patrol boats are still on their way, slowed down by a storm in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said the agency attempted to dispatch a ship and helicopter to help search the area, which is beyond the country&#8217;s territorial waters, but were turned back by stormy weather.<\/p>\n<p>Coast guard agencies in nearby countries were also alerted about the ship sinking, he said. He said it was standard procedure for the Philippines to help out in such a case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSearch and rescue missions are borderless,\u201d Balilo said by telephone in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Photos taken by a Japanese coast guard aircraft showed a damaged lifeboat believed to be from the sunken ship floating in choppy waters, along with traces of an oil leak.<\/p>\n<p>The coast guard said the cause of the sinking was not known.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 A Hong Kong-registered freighter sank in rough seas off the Philippine coast, leaving 10 crewmembers missing, Japan&#8217;s coast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,17],"tags":[27686,27688,27687],"class_list":["post-123690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-news-w","tag-hong-kong-registered-freighter","tag-philippine-coast","tag-sank","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}