MV St. Thomas Aquinas was a Philippine -registered passenger ferry operated by 2GO Travel. On 16 August 2013, the vessel collided with a cargo ship named MV Sulpicio Express Siete of Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation (formerly Sulpicio Lines) and sank. [3] (www.MaritimeCyprus.com) MV St. Thomas Aquinas was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by 2GO Travel. On 16 August 2013, the vessel collided with a cargo ship named MV Sulpicio Express Siete of Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation (formerly Sulpicio Lines) causing it to sink. As of 21 August 2013, there were 61 dead and 59.
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17 August 2013 AFP At least 31 people have died and around 170 are missing after a ferry collided with a cargo ship in the Philippines. More than 600 survivors have now been rescued since the. Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said MV St. Thomas Aquinas was carrying 831 people—715 passengers and 116 crewmembers—when it went down late on Friday night in a dangerous choke point near the port of Cebu City. ADVERTISEMENT MV St. Thomas Aquinas was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by 2GO Travel. On 16 August 2013, the vessel collided with a cargo ship named MV Sulpicio Express Siete of Philippine. This compilation video shows the painstaking and laborious process of entering the wreck of the MV St. Thomas Aquinas in order to recover the poor souls claimed on the day of her sinking - 16.
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In a report on its findings, BMI said the captains of the two vessels involved in the collision—MV St. Thomas Aquinas and MV Sulpicio Express Siete—had both committed errors that led to the. According to Bermejo, at 8:23 p.m. the MV St. Thomas Aquinas detected on its radar an outbound vessel from the port of Cebu entering their inbound lane. Bermejo said the MV St. Thomas Aquinas radioed the vessel, but received no response from Sulpicio, GMA Cebu's Bexmae Jumao-as reported on Balita Pilipinas on August 23. The captain of the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas, which was approaching the port late Friday, ordered the ship abandoned when it began listing and then sank just minutes after collision with the. The collision involved the passenger ship MV Saint Thomas Aquinas 1 and the cargo vessel MV Sulpicio Express 7. The 40-year-old ferry, St Thomas of Aquinas, is allowed to carry up to 904 passengers. It sank minutes after colliding with the cargo vessel about a kilometer off Cebu at around 9:00 p.m. on Friday.
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The ferry, MV St. Thomas Aquina, was coming from Butuan City when it collided with the cargo ship in the Mactan Channel about 2 miles northwest of Cebu City, the capital of Cebu province.. The MV St. Thomas of Aquinas, an inter-island ferry loaded with 870 passengers and crew, had been at sea for about nine hours after leaving Nasipit, a port on the southern Philippine island.
This video shows the painstaking and laborious process of entering the wreck of the MV St. Thomas Aquinas to recover the poor souls claimed on the day of her. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas OP ( / əˈkwaɪnəs /, ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino '; 1225 - 7 March 1274) was an Italian [6] Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
Philippines ferry Thomas Aquinas sinks, many missing BBC News
MV St. Thomas Aquinas was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by 2GO Travel.On 16 August 2013, the vessel collided with a cargo ship named MV Sulpicio Express Siete of Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation (formerly Sulpicio Lines) causing it to sink. As of 21 August 2013, there were 61 dead and 59 missing with 750 rescued as a result of the accident. Elizabeth was on board the MV St. Thomas Aquinas which was about to dock at the Cebu City port. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Sis. Elizabeth looked out to sea and noticed how tranquil it was. The water was clear and she could feel her eager anticipation as in just a few minutes they would be docking. The passengers began the bustle of.
