Typhoon Sinks Ferry with Over 700 People Onboard!

Over 700 people remain missing after the "Princess of the Star" ferry in which they were traveling sank during typhoon Fengshen.
Rescuers are making their way through rough seas to search for missing people as the typhoon continues to rage. With winds of up to 120 miles per hour, Fengshen struck the central and northern Philippines on Saturday. A coast guard rescue ship reached the waters off Sibuyan Island, 300 kilometres south of Manila, where the MV Princess of the Stars sank after running aground.
A hole in the hull was seen as the ferry lay submerged about a kilometer and a half from the shore of Sibuyan. Weather has prevented rescuers from reaching nearby islands where survivors could have drifted.
A U.S. Navy ship from Okinawa, Japan, was expected to arrive early Tuesday near Sibuyan Island south of Manila, where the ferry sank.

Only 38 people had been rescued, including 28 passengers and crew members who came ashore Monday after drifting at sea since Saturday. One survivor recounted the sinking: "There were many children trapped inside the boat. I could hear them wailing before the boat sank," said Renato Lanorias, a crew member of the 23,824-ton ferry who survived by clinging to the rope of a life raft until he hit land, along with three others.
Lanorias said he could not forget the hundreds of bodies floating at sea and the cries for help from the victims as the ship keeled over and went under.
Princess of the Stars, owned by Sulpicio Lines, sailed from Manila at 8 a.m. on Friday on a 22-hour trip to Cebu City with 626 passengers and 121 crewmen. Among the passengers were 31 infants and 20 children.

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• Frengshen
• Frank
• ferry
• sinks
• Princess
• Star
• sink
• Philippines
• disaster
• ship
• boat
• capsized
• storm

[aliceangel7]

There was a report of a dolphin seen trying to rescue a fisherman from drowning after his boat sank in Typhoon Frank. A survivor saw a dolphin, which was about the size of an adult human, drag and push the man toward Burias Island. Unfortunately, neither the fisherman nor the dolphin survived. After the storm, local residents found the dead bodies of the man and the dolphin, which were buried on the island.

[ambbot07]

so sad,,, no words could take away the pain of those passengers relatives, sometimes we dont understand the ways of our saving Lord yet... no matter what still His ways are far more greater than ours...

keep on hoping, and let the sunken star smile again!!!

RISE PHILIPPINES!!!

from Thailand

[paerchu]

so sinasabi nila na kasalanan ng diyos..omg... for me, global warming. kahit andito lang ako sa cagayan de oro... nadarama ko ang mga hinagpis at ang pinagdadaanan ng mga nawalan ng mga mahal sa buhay... im praying for them... omg... T.T

[xtiml]

just what were they doing ferrying intop a goddamned typhoon?

[RMINCProductions]

@Kupz29

Gook is a mean word for an Asian person or a sticky substance

[bitemysausage]

@tubedude101 please close your mouth.

[Jenema2]

is there any video from inside when it capsies?

[tubedude101]

your a gook just look in the mirror and you'll find out that your a gook bitch!!

[KUPZ29]

whatever, you don't even know what gook means so just go on with hating us and i hope one day you'll come to your senses.....

[tubedude101]

I told you too shut up you pangit gook!!

[KUPZ29]

i guess you're a 10yr old so there's no point in putting sense to you. you should be proudl of your parents for what they have done to you. you are brought up to be a complete failure to them.....

[tubedude101]

@KUPZ29 Shut Up you GOOK!!

[KUPZ29]

wow dude, that's not a very nice thing to say. i'm sure your one of those fortunate ones that leave our homeland to have a better life and this is how you thank the homeland where you were born. you should be ashamed of yourself for mentioning you were born there. is this what your parents taught you growing up. i'm sad about what's going on with our youths and their attitudes, especially yours. learn to respect others, so you may get the same in return.