MV Dona Paz Tragedy 1

MV Dona Paz Tragedy

December 20, 1987. More than four thousand passengers from the Samar and Leyte provinces boarded MV Dona Paz. They were all hoping to celebrate Christmas in Manila . Halfway to the travel, tragedy struck.

The ferry collided with MT Vector, a cargo ship carrying gasoline. The waters were set ablaze as the two boats sank to the bottom of the Mindoro Sea . Only twenty passengers survived. With a death toll of at least four thousand, the collision was cited as the worst ever peace-time maritime disaster.

More than twenty years later, Case Unclosed opens the case of the MV Dona Paz to answers questions that keeps on resurfacing: what was the real reason for the tragedy and who is to blame for all the lives lost?

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December 20, 1987, mahigit sa apat na libong katao mula sa mga probinsiya ng Samar at Leyte ang sakay ng MV Dona Paz. Lahat paluwas sa Maynila para mag-pasko. Pero sa gitna ng karagatan ng Mindoro, trahedya ang naganap.

Sumapalpok ito sa MT Vector na may kargang libo-libong drum ng gasolina. Ang karagatan nagliyab habang ang dalawang barko nilamon ng tubig. Halos lahat ay namatay, maliban sa dalawampung kataong nakaligtas.

Babalikan ng Case Unclosed ang mga isyung tila lumubog na rin mahigit dalawampung taon na ang nakalilipas. Naabswelto na ang mga kompanyang di-umano'y nagpabaya, pero marami pa rin ang lumulutang na katanungan. Sino ang dapat managot sa isa sa mga pinakamalagim na trahedya sa kasaysayan ng ating bansa?

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[denz1716]

my grandma died there

[globnoob999]

@TheGb2132 mine too

[TheGb2132]

My ears got raped at the start.

[TheGb2132]

I saw the top three worst ship disasters. Dona paz was no.1.

[TheGb2132]

@Araxes666 i,m sorry.

[Araxes666]

My father die there...

[stonewindimmortal]

Idiot Captains on outdated autopilot technology. With Ships bought cheaply from Indian ship graveyards