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CNN have just posted a ferry has gown down in Leyte 34 poople have died there was 173 on board , lets hope the rest are safe. RIP to thoses that did not make it

 

Incorrect loading given as the cause of the shipwreck,

Leyte - The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) announced on Friday in the investigation of the House Committee announced that a false charge and do not overcharge was the cause of the sinking of the MB Kim Nirvana-B. In the shipwreck off Ormoc City's, a total of 62 passengers were on 2 July (see article 04.07.2015) died. MARINA Administrator Maximo Mejia Jr. says that MB Kim Nirvana-B is approved for 178 passengers and 16 crew members. According to Mejia, the ship is 225 passengers and 18 crew members expired and had invited more than 100 bags of rice and cement. He says the ship only had a weight load of 50 tonnes, which corresponds to only half of the total capacity of 100 tons. The MARINA is the captain of the ship to blame, because the cargo was loaded on the upper deck and the passengers were seated in the lower deck. Debt is also the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) given by Ormoc City that the ship allowed the phasing out, although no lifejackets on Borad were. The MARINA had recently banned in the Circular 2015-07, the use of an upper deck for passenger and freight , Mejia says all outrigger boats with a second deck to be re-inspected and approved for non-compliance are met, only for use with the lower deck. MARINA-7 lawyer Jose Cabatingan says that the owners and operators of the outrigger boats have started to remove their upper deck to follow the orders of the MARINA.EPD 11/07/2015 - 4:40

 

If you don't like the News, just change to a different station or wait for the News to change.

Yesterday afternoon I watched CNN Philippines and the US fellow said (more or less);
"if the crew is charged then the 2 coast guard guys should also be charged for releasing the boat" This part was missing from the evening news. He did not say the CG personnel were on board to inspect the ferry but it was more or less implied.
"the CG needs to review their search and rescue procedures, they were recovering dead bodies while live people were in the water, dead is dead, get them later"
Again that clip was omitted from the evening news. He may very well find himself "persona Non-grata".

In the afternoon it was reported that some names on the passenger list had been changed.
The CG said that is dis-honest and the CG will not be giving any more interviews until their investigation is complete.

I don't remember the owners of the ship and ferry that collided off Cebu two years a go where 114 people died. Selective justice, maybe.

 

I skippered ferrys around Indonesia for a few years its not as easy as one may think, ticket sellers sell a lot more tickets that is a safe number , offen the manifest is not to be found so only by looking at the load line can you the weight you have on board. The other big factor is that you have a live load (people) they can move around if they all go to one side maybe to wave their last goodbye this move it can make a big diffrence , if many go aloft it can send the center of gravity up the mask real quick, finaly offen when you leave port you have to turn side on to the to set your course and you can cop a big wave broadside and it throws a lot of weight to the lee side . It happens so quick .