Outgoing Coast Guard Cebu District station commander Rolando Punzalan was lauded for the success of the fluvial processions for San Pedro Calungsod’s Thanksgiving Mass at the South Reclamation Project on Nov. 25 and in honor of the Sto. Niño de Cebu on Jan. 19, a day prior to the Sinulog grand parade.
Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard station in Coron in northern Palawan rescued on Monday the captain and four passengers of the motor yacht Palawan Princess, which drifted after having engine trouble off Dibatoc Island, according to the PCG headquarters in Manila.
At least 14 of the 230 search-and-rescue dogs in the Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) special K-9 Unit have been tapped by the command in locating casualties and missing persons during flash floods, landslides, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
The Coast Guard has started collecting fuel from the cargo vessel that listed at the port of Ormoc City, Leyte, and leaked fuel last Saturday.
A ferry carrying about 200 passengers ran aground in the port of Dumaguete Thursday morning due to strong waves brought by tropical depression “Auring”, the Coast Guard said.
The Coast Guard in this city said it has stopped an oil leak from a container vessel that listed in this city’s port on Saturday.
The Philippine Coast Guard is conducting search-and-rescue operations for 45 fishing vessels and their over 300 crewmen reported missing off the coast of southeastern Mindanao amid the onslaught of Typhoon “Pablo” in the region early last week.
Residents living in low-lying and landslide-prone areas were told to evacuate Monday as preemptive measure with the expected landfall of typhoon “Pablo.”
The Philippine Coast Guard headquarters in Manila has placed on “heightened alert” all PCG units nationwide, especially those expected to be in the path of typhoon “Pablo.”
An undisclosed number of new Philippine Coast Guard recruits used fake birth certificates, school and other records in gaining admission to the undermanned maritime agency and now face possible court-martial, the Coast Guard’s officer in charge disclosed Thursday.
Beleaguered Coast Guard chief Vice Admiral Edmund Tan will retire on Dec. 16 while serving a 90-day preventive suspension ordered by the Sandiganbayan in connection with a 2009 graft case filed against him when he was still head of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Visayas Area Command.
The fight against illegal drugs just got a boost from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) which has committed to train more narcotics-sniffing dogs for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
Despite a Sandiganbayan ruling ordering the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) to impose a 90-day preventive suspension on Philippine Coast Guard Commandant Vice Admiral Edmund Tan in connection with a pending graft case, the PCG head is still reporting for work at the agency headquarters in Port Area, Manila.
