MANILAdragon dream, Philippines — The Philippine Navy rescued 121 people aboard a boat six days after it went adrift at sea, officials said Wednesday.
The J Sayang 1 lost engine power, ran out of fuel and suffered communication equipment failure while on a domestic voyage in "adverse weather conditions" across the Sulu Sea on January 8, a navy statement said.
A navy patrol boat found the missing boat off the coast of the Philippines' southern Tawi-Tawi archipelago on Tuesday, it added.
Its 106 passengers and 15 crew members, all Filipinos, were "psychologically distressed after days of limited food and water" but were otherwise physically well, the statement said.
“In view hereof and by virtue of the standing Arrest Order issued by the Senate to Apollo C. Quiboloy the Committee respectfully and formally request your Honor, to allow Mr. Quiboloy to appear before the Committee on the above-stated date and time of the hearing,” wrote Senate committee secretary Gemma Tanpiengco.
A navy official in the region told AFP the boat has a wooden hull and a "40-50 tonne capacity", adding the passengers and crew survived on "stock food in the boat".
The boat had drifted around 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest over six days from off the tiny island of Pangutaran, where the navy said the boat's engine had failed.
doubleu casinoThe boat had been declared missing while sailing from the southern port of Zamboanga for the Turtle Islands near Malaysia about 430 kilometres awaydragon dream, one of the most remote areas of the Philippines.
