CEBU CITY - Mayor Edgardo Labella is pushing for stricter sea travel regulations to small vessels after the death of nine Cebuanos in sea tragedy involving three motorized boats in Iloilo earlier this month.
“Here we go again. We have not learned our lessons. We have other victims of a sea accident,” said Labella, who himself is a survivor of the 1998 sinking of MV Princess of the Orient.
Labella said smaller sea transportation such as the motorized boats that sank off the coast of Iloilo and claimed the lives of 31 passengers, including nine residents of Ermita village here, are the favorite mode of sea travel for poor passengers because of cheap fare. “You know that sea travel is the cheapest mode of travel.
That’s why many poor people patronize it because that’s the fastest kind of transportation that they can easily access,” Labella said. He said there are government agencies that have not learned from the lessons of past sea mishaps that claimed the lives of hundreds of Filipinos.
“I myself am a victim of a sea tragedy. That’s why I keep emphasizing saying ‘here we go again,” he said.
Labella and his wife survived when the MV Princess of the Orient owned by Sulpicio Lines Inc., sank near Fortune Island in Batangas on Sept. 18, 1998. Some 80 passengers and crew remain missing after the tragedy. He was the last survivor floating on the ocean for 36 hours in the middle of typhoon Vicki. (John Rey Saavedra)
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“Here we go again. We have not learned our lessons. We have other victims of a sea accident,” said Labella, who himself is a survivor of the 1998 sinking of MV Princess of the Orient.
Labella said smaller sea transportation such as the motorized boats that sank off the coast of Iloilo and claimed the lives of 31 passengers, including nine residents of Ermita village here, are the favorite mode of sea travel for poor passengers because of cheap fare. “You know that sea travel is the cheapest mode of travel.
That’s why many poor people patronize it because that’s the fastest kind of transportation that they can easily access,” Labella said. He said there are government agencies that have not learned from the lessons of past sea mishaps that claimed the lives of hundreds of Filipinos.
“I myself am a victim of a sea tragedy. That’s why I keep emphasizing saying ‘here we go again,” he said.
Labella and his wife survived when the MV Princess of the Orient owned by Sulpicio Lines Inc., sank near Fortune Island in Batangas on Sept. 18, 1998. Some 80 passengers and crew remain missing after the tragedy. He was the last survivor floating on the ocean for 36 hours in the middle of typhoon Vicki. (John Rey Saavedra)
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