{"id":588046,"date":"2014-03-22T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=588046"},"modified":"2014-03-22T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:59:14","slug":"21-rescued-from-damaged-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/588046\/21-rescued-from-damaged-boat","title":{"rendered":"21 rescued from damaged boat"},"content":{"rendered":"
ILOILO CITY, Philippines \u2013 Twenty-one persons, including 14 foreigners, were rescued from a motorized boat off Cauayan town in Negros Occidental near midnight Friday after one of the vessel\u2019s outriggers broke, the Philippine Coast Guard said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n
No one was reported injured.<\/p>\n\n
Eleven of the foreigners, who were described as French, Swiss, German and Spanish, arrived in Iloilo City at 6:40 a.m. Saturday aboard the search and rescue ship\u00a0 MCS 3006, according to Commodore Athelo Ybanez, Western Visayas Coast Guard commander.<\/p>\n\n
Three other foreigners, who had organized a diving trip to Cebu,\u00a0 and the boat\u2019s seven Filipino crew members opted to stay on the boat, which managed to sail slowly to Nueva Valencia on Guimaras island, officials said.<\/p>\n\n
Lt. Cmdr. Dominador Senador, commander of the Coast Guard\u2019s\u00a0 Iloilo station, said the boat was on its way from San Jose, capital of Antique province, to Oslob in Cebu when one of its outriggers was damaged eight miles off Sojoton Point in Cauayan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twenty-one persons, including 14 foreigners, were rescued from a motorized boat off Cauayan town in Negros Occidental near midnight Friday after one of the vessel\u2019s outriggers broke, the Philippine Coast Guard said Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":581523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,46],"tags":[119,1044],"byline":[163],"source":[206073],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n