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M/V Agility - Six Fishermen’s rescue

While enroute to Australia from China at 0945hrs, Philippine Standard Time, 23/06/2008, the Master and crewmembers of M/V Agility under the crew management of Interorient-Liberia, managed to rescue (6) fishermen afloat with their capsized fishing vessel named F/V Teresita, Registry: Tacloban City, at the vicinity South Eeast of Borongan Eastern Samar about 27nm off. According to Master’s report, the survivors’ vessel was caught/hit by the typhoon "Fengshen" (International name of the typhoon) which passed at the eastern part of Samar. They stayed at the sea for 5 days and 4 nights about 120 hrs. At the time of their rescue, they are very weak, and have some small wounds and several scratches on their hands and feet.

With the quick and efficient response of all the crew onboard, they were given proper first aid and medications which resulted to the rapid recovery of their strength. All the rescued fishermen were safely turned over to the Philippine Coast Guard.

Name and other details of the six rescued Filipino fishermen are as follows:

1. Gallarde, Roland /33 years old, Sarangani Province
2. Gallarde, Teofilo /45 years old, Samar
3. Lopera, Jose /32 years old, Gen. Santos City
4. Tuquib, Rodolfo /21 years old, Sarangani Province
5. Tablo, Arman Niaga /28 years old, Sarangani Province
6. Arobo, Efren /36 years old, Gen. Santos City

We would like to take this opportunity to praise the professionalism and unselfishness of our officers and crew onboard this vessel, commanded by Captain Jaime N. Nicolasora who had spared every effort in rescuing the six fishermen, pursuant to the moral rules, good seamanship ethics and “SOLAS Regulations”. We salute them for their courage, quick and efficient response to this case of emergency, which leads to a safe & successful rescue operations.