Joanna Aglibot

Dec 31, 2024 | plus.inquirer.net | Joanna Aglibot |Joey Gabieta

Families of two fishers and crew members of a cargo ship greeted the New Year with anxiety as they continued to search for their relatives who went missing following separate sea tragedies in the waters off Northern Samar and Zambales provinces that left one dead. In Zambales, a fisherman from Subic town was rescued after seven grueling days at sea but his two companions remained missing, according to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Tuesday.

Dec 10, 2024 | newsinfo.inquirer.net | Joanna Aglibot

SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES, Philippines — Residents of San Felipe town in this province were alarmed on Tuesday after seeing in a marine tracker what appeared to be a China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel near a dredging site. Locals who routinely monitor vessels operating in the Sto. Tomas River were taken aback upon detecting a vessel identified as a CCG ship with body No. 21543 approaching the area, according to Elezer Requirme, a resident and beach resort owner.

Dec 4, 2024 | newsinfo.inquirer.net | Joanna Aglibot

SUBIC, ZAMBALES, Philippines — Clutching his weathered hands tightly, 55-year-old fisherman Renato Celistra this week faced their town mates and announced that he and his crew had returned without finding their missing companions. “We tried, but we couldn’t find them,” said Celistra, the skipper and owner of FB Reincris, as soon as they reached Barangay Calapandayan here on Monday after six days at sea.

Dec 1, 2024 | newsinfo.inquirer.net | Joanna Aglibot

SUBIC, ZAMBALES, Philippines — Four fishermen from this town in Zambales province went missing while they were approximately 74 kilometers (40 nautical miles) northeast of Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) last week. In a phone interview on Sunday, Cristina Bausin, 42, said her partner Renato Celistra, the boat operator and skipper of FB Reincris, and 12 crew members left Barangay Calapandayan of this town on Nov.

Nov 29, 2024 | newsinfo.inquirer.net | Joanna Aglibot

SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) stressed on Friday that there have been no active black sand mining activities in this province in the last several months. Cmdr. Euphraim Jayson Diciano, chief of the PCG station in Zambales, said the absence of black sand mining by any vessels was reported by their substations in the province, which were tasked with investigating the veracity of the report.