Sep 15, 2023 | Regional, Weather Update, Maritime Incidents, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – A 24-year-old bartender and a 65-year-old man drowned while swimming in Nasugbu and Balete in Batangas province, police reported on Wednesday, September 13. The Police Regional Office 4-A identified the victims as Mark Andrew Famor,...
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Dec 31, 2022 | Weather Update, Maritime Incidents, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic
TACLOBAN CITY – The search for the missing fishermen in Northern and Eastern Samar due to massive rains continues. In Palapag town, its municipal disaster risk reduction management office (MDRRMO) said they received reports that the fishing boat used by two of its...
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Dec 29, 2022 | Weather Update, Others, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic
ANTIQUE – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) canceled sea travel from the province of Antique to Occidental Mindoro and Palawan and vice versa via small crafts of 250 registered gross tons. On Tuesday morning, Dec. 27, Acting Station Commander of PCG-Antique Coast Guard...
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Dec 26, 2022 | Regional, Weather Update, Maritime Incidents, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic
WO fishermen died, while six others survived when their fishing boat capsized off the waters of Barangay Manglit, Pintuyan, Southern Leyte early Sunday morning, December 25, 2022. The fatalities were Rowel Dialel, 50, and Amay Paglinawan, 49. Authorities...
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Dec 26, 2022 | Weather Update, Maritime Incidents, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic
Heavy rains and flooding greeted residents of Northern Samar province on Christmas Day on Sunday, Dec. 25, due to a shear line affecting Eastern Visayas (Region 8). Josh Echano, head of Northern Samar Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office...
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Dec 23, 2022 | Weather Update, Maritime Incidents, Maritime Situational Awareness, Foreign
Container ship PACIFIC EXPRESS lost 10 containers overboard in stormy weather on Dec 17, off Quang Nam Province coast, central Vietnam, South China sea, while en route from Ho Chi Mingh to Hai Phong. 3 containers were found recently by locals, washed on the beach,...
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Aug 31, 2022 | Weather Update, Domestic
MANILA, Philippines — The low pressure area (LPA) spotted east of extreme northern Luzon has developed into a tropical depression as the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said that a supertyphoon with a possible...
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Aug 30, 2022 | Weather Update, Domestic, Foreign
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 30) – Typhoon Hinnamnor intensified as it moved towards the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR), data from U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) showed. According to JTWC’s bulletin released on Monday, the typhoon has...
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Aug 23, 2022 | Weather Update, Domestic
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 23) — After intensifying into a severe tropical storm, “Florita” is now heading northwestward and is seen to make landfall either in the vicinity of Cagayan or Isabela on Tuesday. In its 8 a.m. advisory, the Philippine...
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Aug 23, 2022 | Weather Update, Others, Domestic
MANILA, Philippines — State weather bureau PAGASA on Monday morning placed 12 areas in Luzon under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 1 due to tropical depression Florita. Florita was last spotted 310 kilometers east of Casiguran Aurora, with maximum sustained winds of...
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Apr 16, 2022 | Weather Update, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic, West Philippines Sea Update
MANILA – Metro Manila and the rest of the country will be experiencing partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms this Saturday. In its 4 a.m. weather bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services...
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Apr 14, 2022 | Weather Update, Others, Maritime Situational Awareness, Domestic
MANILA – All shipping and fishing operations in all ports nationwide have been allowed to resume on Wednesday as former tropical storm Agaton dissipated 65 kilometers southeast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. In an advisory, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said the...
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