{"id":25994,"date":"2014-09-16T23:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25994"},"modified":"2014-09-16T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T15:11:56","slug":"navy-terminates-sar-ops-for-missing-mv-maharlika-ii-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/16\/navy-terminates-sar-ops-for-missing-mv-maharlika-ii-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy terminates SAR ops for missing M\/V Maharlika II passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25995\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MV-Maharlika-II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25995\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MV-Maharlika-II.jpg\" alt=\"Capsized MV Maharlika II (screengrab from Brigada.ph)\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MV-Maharlika-II.jpg 450w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/MV-Maharlika-II-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capsized MV Maharlika II (screengrab from Brigada.ph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Navy (PN) on Tuesday announced it is terminating the search-and-retrieval (SAR) operations for the passengers of M\/V Maharlika-2 which went missing when the ship sank Saturday (Sept. 13) during rough weather off Southern Leyte.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The three ships that the PN have committed since Day 1 for the SAR operations in connection with the M\/V Maharlika-2 sea mishap, BRP Alberto Navarette (PG-394), BRP Rafael Pargas (PG-379), and the Navy fastcraft vessel, DF-350, still conducted SAR operations in the incident today. However, no body was recovered. ICS (incident command system) Surigao briefing just concluded, search-and-recovery operations was terminated,&#8221; said PN public affairs office chief Lt. Cmdr. Marineth Domingo.<\/p>\n<p>Navy and civilian ships have rescued 110 passengers and crewmen from the ill-fated ship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ICS is now shifting to monitoring and dissemination to all coastal barangays and municipalities, Philippine Coast Guard will issue Notice to Mariners,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Domingo added two of the reported missing were included and validated by the ICS leaving a total of three missing individuals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Navy will be on stand-by and alert on any eventualities,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, five cadavers were recovered while another three were retrieved Sunday, bringing to a total of eight the bodies fished out of the high seas.<\/p>\n<p>Five of these were identified as Ramon Molato, Nelson Custodio, Betty Bahi, Arlita Puyales and Tiffany Saberon, the two year old infant.<\/p>\n<p>PCG spokesman Cmdr. Armand Balilo earlier said the bodies were turned over to the Lipata police station.<\/p>\n<p>M\/V Maharlika-2, a roll-on\/roll-off vessel, sank in the waters of Southern Leyte last Saturday when it encountered steering problems after being battered by heavy waves triggered by Typhoon &#8220;Luis&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Navy (PN) on Tuesday announced it is terminating the search-and-retrieval (SAR) operations for the passengers of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25994","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}