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PCG helps place oil booms around sunken dredger off Bataan
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is managing an oil spill off Bataan after the Sierra Leone-flagged dredger MV Hong Hai 189 sank.
The dredger sank on Saturday morning, May 6, approximately 400 yards from the Sisiman Lighthouse in Mariveles, releasing about 30 to 50 liters of fuel and other substances.
PCG personnel have deployed oil spill booms and absorbent bags to contain the leak and observed no additional oil spill traces in the vicinity.
The PCG is concurrently involved in clean-up operations in Oriental Mindoro following a separate oil spill from the sunken MT Princess Empress.
The MV Hong Hai 189 had previously collided with the MT Petite Soeur off Corregidor Island on April 29, resulting in three fatalities, 15 rescues, and two individuals still missing from the dredger's crew.
The PCG continues to monitor the situation and search for the two missing individuals from the dredger's crew.
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Two foreign-flagged vessels, the Sierra Leone-flagged MV Hong Hai 189 and the Marshall Islands-flagged MT Petite Souer, collided off Corregidor Island on Friday, April 28, 2023.
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