Jun

25

U.S. divers to join search on Philippine ferry

Filed Under Natural Disasters | Posted By Jennifer Sullivan |

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U.S. navy divers will join the grim search for bodies in a sunken ferry in the Philippines on Wednesday with over 700 people still missing.

Still hundreds of passengers were feared trapped inside the Princess of the Stars when it ran aground and capsized in waves as big as houses off the central island of Sibuyan during a typhoon on Saturday.

Coast guard said, we retrieve bodies from inside a dining hall, still wearing life vests were floating head up.

Coast guard spokesman said, “They are optimistic they will be able to penetrate the others spaces today,”

Officials do not expect to find any survivors. Plans to bore a hole into the side of the seven-storey vessel have been abandoned for fear of disturbing around 100,000 litres of bunker fuel still on board.

Around 10 divers from U.S. military ship, the USNS Stockham, will join the operation after receiving orientation.

President George W. Bush said the United States would send an aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, to aid in the relief effort following Typhoon Fengshen, which devastated islands in the center of the archipelago



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