{"id":232396,"date":"2019-09-25T03:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232396"},"modified":"2019-09-25T03:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:35:03","slug":"pcg-says-7-dead-after-dragon-boat-capsizes-off-boracay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/25\/pcg-says-7-dead-after-dragon-boat-capsizes-off-boracay\/","title":{"rendered":"PCG says 7 dead after dragon boat capsizes off Boracay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philcoastguardofficialpage\/posts\/380246379310689\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philcoastguardofficialpage\/posts\/380246379310689\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Dragon Boat capsizes off Boracay; 7 casualties;14 safeBORACAY, Philippines ( 25 September 2019)- Personnel of Coast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philcoastguardofficialpage\/\">Philippine Coast Guard<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/philcoastguardofficialpage\/posts\/380246379310689\">Tuesday, September 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported that a dragon boat capsized in Boracay Island, leaving seven individuals dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the PCG, the Boracay Dragon Force Team, consisting of 21 members, were having their practice at Sitio Lingganay, Barangay Manoc-Manoc when sudden strong waves hit their boat, causing them to capsize. The incident happened on Wednesday, September 25, at around 7:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Upon learning about it, personnel of Coast Guard Sub-Station (CGSS) Boracay immediately went to the area and conducted search and rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fourteen rescued individuals were brought to Saint Gabriel Hospital for medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Identification of the victims will be withheld for the next 24 hours until the next of kin have been notified,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Philippine Dragon Boat Federation (PDBF), meanwhile, expressed their sympathies to families of the seven paddlers who passed away and offered their prayers for the immediate recuperation of those injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;May peace and comfort find the hearts of the bereaved family of our departed brothers and sisters in this sport. May God&#8217;s healing and grace descend upon those who are recovering,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The PDBF also encouraged the use of personal floatation device during training &#8220;to avoid incidents that lead to unnecessary loss of life or sustenance of injury.&#8221; it added that it educated their member clubs about proper safety protocols in case of the sinking of boats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The PDBF is committed to ensuring that people who are doing dragon boat in the Philippines are well-equipped with proper information and know-hows in case of water emergencies,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Boat capsizes off Boracay; 7 casualties;14 safeBORACAY, Philippines ( 25 September 2019)- Personnel of Coast&#8230; Posted by Philippine Coast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":232397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","category-sports","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232396","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=232396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232399,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232396\/revisions\/232399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}