MANILA: The Philippine Navy rescued 121 folks aboard a ship six days after it drifted into the ocean, officers stated Wednesday (Jan 15).
The J Sayang 1 misplaced engine energy, ran out of gasoline and suffered a communications gear failure throughout a home voyage in “adversarial climate circumstances” throughout the Sulu Sea on Jan. 8, a navy assertion stated.
A navy patrol boat discovered the lacking boat off the coast of the southern Tawi-Tawi archipelago of the Philippines on Tuesday, he added.
Its 106 passengers and 15 crew members, all Filipinos, had been “psychologically distressed after days of restricted meals and water” however had been in any other case bodily nicely, the assertion stated.
A navy official from the area instructed AFP that the boat has a wood hull and a “capability of 40 to 50 tonnes”, including that the passengers and crew survived with “meals provides within the boat”.
The boat had drifted about 100 kilometers southwest for six days off the small island of Pangutaran, the place the navy stated the boat’s engine had failed.
The vessel was reported lacking whereas crusing from the southern port of Zamboanga to the Turtle Islands, close to Malaysia, about 430 kilometers away, one of the crucial distant areas of the Philippines.
